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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 Union and the War: A Sermon, Preached November 27, 1862

William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Thanksgiving Day addresses - 1863 - 44 pages
...nor wealth, nor even education and religion, 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.' Those who nominated and elected me, did so with a full knowledge that...
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Six Months in the Federal States, Volume 2

Edward Dicey - Abolitionists - 1863 - 344 pages
...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 no inclination to do so. " Those who nominated and elected me did so with the " full knowledge...
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Journal of the Indiana State Senate ... of the General Assembly, ..., Volume 43

Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - Indiana - 1863 - 850 pages
...in his inaugural message (and repeated the same in his annual message in substance) as follows : " 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." . And the Thirty Sixth Congress, by a unanimous vote, declared, "...
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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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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 1180 pages
...view of the fact that the President, in his inaugural address of the 4th day of March, 1861, declared, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...in the States where it exists; I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so:" Therefore, Resolved, As the judgment of this house,...
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The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 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 exista." I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination...
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Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the ...

David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...spe'eches 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. Those who nominated and elected me. did so with the full knowledge...
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The Washington Despotism Dissected in Articles from the Metropolitan Record

Metropolitan Record, New York - United States - 1864 - 136 pages
...security are to be endangered. * . * * * I do but quote from one of my 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 T have no inclination to do so" Such was ,the advent of Mr. Lincoln into "Washington— a city where...
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Speeches of Hon. William D. Kelley: Replies of the Hon. William D. Kelley to ...

William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1864 - 92 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 so to do.' Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 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." Those who nominated and elected mo did so with full knowledge that...
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