 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...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 with the institution of slaverv in the States where it exists ; I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...no ground to the Southern States for apprehending any invasion of their rights. "I have," said he, "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the State/ where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - Illinois - 1865 - 422 pages
...organized, confiding in the declaration of the President, in his inaugural address, to- wit: that he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it existed, and that he believed he had no lawful right to do so, and that he had... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...ipeeches 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 oi slavery in the States where it eiists. I believe I have no lawful right to do во, and I have nc... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1865 - 772 pages
...organized, confiding in the declaration of the President, in his inaugural address, to wit: "that he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to" interfere with the institution of slavery in the States •where it existed, and that he believed he had no lawful right to do so, and that he... | |
 | John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...Source B: Abraham Lincoln from first Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa, Illinois, 21 August 1858 ... I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...institution of slavery in the States where it exists ... I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races ...... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...he argued that it did not mean that black people were legally inferior. "I will say here . . . that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position .... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere ivith 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. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 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 where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...masterstroke of political craft." Nor was Lincoln merely talking for effect when he reiterated that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." The Constitution and constitutional law had erected a firewall between... | |
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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. 
