 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...to proceed to extremities. He made, on this occasion, the following statement : — " I declare that 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... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches, when I declare that ' 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... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches, when I declare that " 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... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - Slavery - 1866 - 672 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that ' / have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in tiie states where it exists? I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no intention... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote, from one of those speeches when I declare that ll 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... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 696 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that 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... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...them, FALSITY OF THE ABOLITIONISTS. 217 and, quoting from a former speech, announced to the country : " 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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...the Constitution and interfere with the slave states, or that he intended to promote racial equality. "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," Lincoln replied, and "no purpose to introduce political and social... | |
 | Greg Ward - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...felt that his personal principles should remain distinct from his duty as president, and avowed that '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... | |
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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. 
