 | Mountague Bernard - Great Britain - 1870 - 542 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe 1 have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." And he repeated these words in his Inaugural Address. But no man had more firmly opposed the extension... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...directly or indirectly io 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.' And in a letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President... | |
 | Allen D. Spiegel - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 414 pages
...no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so... Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? ...that truth and... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...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." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar... | |
 | Lucretia Mott - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 646 pages
...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." The Liberatorhad scorned the president's attempts to appease the Confederate states: "The breach is... | |
 | Randall G. Holcombe - Business & Economics - 2002 - 352 pages
...directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists 1 believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."5 Lincoln reiterated this opinion in 1862, shortly before issuing his Emancipation Proclamation:... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...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. It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union;... | |
 | Greg Ward - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...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.' The two sides that squared up to fight the Civil War were clearly demarcated by slavery. Slaves constituted... | |
 | Jean M. Humez - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 489 pages
...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" (Sewell, 1988, 161). Lincoln was still unprepared to issue an Emancipation Proclamation, and though... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...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. Those who nominated and elected me did so with 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. 
