 | Stanley A. Renshon - Political Science - 2001 - 422 pages
...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."8 He devoted most of his first year in office to proving the point, steadfastly refusing to make... | |
 | Ty Cashion, Jesús F. de la Teja - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 272 pages
...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 no inclination to do so."13 Wigfall preferred to scare Southerners: an invasion would be directed by... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...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,...similar declarations, and had never recanted them. In your hands, my dissatisf1ed fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil... | |
 | Allen D. Spiegel - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 414 pages
...patience. "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... Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? ...that truth and... | |
 | Lucretia Mott - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 646 pages
...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 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:... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...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'" (CPF4:263). Is it quite right to say of such a man that he was a lover of justice, if that love could... | |
 | Jean M. Humez - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 489 pages
...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" (Sewell, 1988, 161). Lincoln was still unprepared to issue an Emancipation Proclamation, and though... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...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. 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
...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 two sides that squared up to fight the Civil War were clearly demarcated by slavery. Slaves constituted... | |
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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. 
