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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. "
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ... - Page 215
by Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 752 pages
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the american annual cyclopaedia

1863 - 856 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...exists." I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have uo inclination to do so. And, more than this, they placed in the platform, for my acceptance,...
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All the Year Round, Volume 6

Charles Dickens - English literature - 1862 - 632 pages
...agreement with hell." Mr. Lincoln, on the other hand, said most distinctly, in his inaugural address : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He expressed in the same speech his willingness that the Fugitive...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 111

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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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 111-112

1862 - 628 pages
...it 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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The Massachusetts register. Serial no., 94

Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...elements of the day. We will state his most important positions. His Position. He said, at the outset, " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," and affirmed the right of each State to control its own domestic institutions...
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The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a ..., Volume 1

United States - 1862 - 200 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...
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The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents ..., Volume 3

Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 830 pages
...and Madison, through a longperiod of the country's early history. Mr. Lincoln declares that " he has no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists." The votes and resolutions in the convention that formed the Chicago Platform expressly...
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Mass Convention of the Democracy and Conservative Citizens of Indiana, Held ...

Indiana. Citizens - Indiana - 1862 - 40 pages
...which I liave referred, but also bis own deliberate announcement in his inaugural address, that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists" — that he believed lie had "no lawful right to do so," and that he...
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The Cotton Trade: Its Bearing Upon the Prosperity of Great Britain and ...

George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 pages
...slavery was recognised by the Constitution, and that he had no right to interfere with it.* He said : ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.' The Federal Government has no right to meddle with slavery in the...
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The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University ..., Volume 8

Education - 1897 - 678 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...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so" [I860]. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge...
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