 | Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...the Republic by half-adozen lines of proclamation. The president, in his inaugural address, said : " I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists ; I believe that I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | 1864 - 492 pages
...reasonable ground for such an apprehension. I quote one of my former speeches, in which I declared that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in states where it exists.' I believe I have no lawful right, as I have no inclination^ to do so. Those... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. 1 will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to^lo so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnuthorse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution in the States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so. I have no inclination to do so.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution in the States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so. I have no inclination to do so.... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnuthorse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution in the States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so. I have no inclination to do so.... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...discuss those matters of administration about whifch there is no special anxiety or excitement. ^] Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the...purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the instifution of slavery in the Slates where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement. ^f Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the...quote from one of those speeches when I declare that " 1 have no purpose , directly or indirectly , to interfere with the institution of slavery in the... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 600 pages
...in the most unreserved and unqualified manner. In his inaugural address he solemnly declared — ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
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I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. "I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. 
