 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...his inaugural in 1861, pointedly said: " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so." And when on January 1, 1863, he issued his emancipation proclamation it was nothing more than a war measure,... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...his inaugural in 1861, pointedly said: " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so." And when on January 1, 1863, he issued his emancipation proclamation it was nothing more than a war measure,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 pages
...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...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and 1 have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...institution of slavery and the black race. "This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...specious and fantastic arrangement of words by which men can prove a horse'chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 pages
...institution of slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawfill right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1901 - 264 pages
...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...exists. ' I believe I have no lawful right to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
 | William M. Davidson - Electric power distribution - 1902 - 620 pages
...,it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...exists I believe I have no lawful right to do so. I have no inclination to do so." His closing words, memorable and touching, were to the south: "In... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...institution of slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it ; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-ohestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here while upon this subject that I have no purpose,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...I took in that contest of 1854. . . . This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.... | |
 | John Graham Brooks - Labor movement - 1903 - 428 pages
...Stung by the persistent unfairness, Lincoln replied, " Anything that argues me into his (Douglas's) idea of perfect social and political equality with...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." This sentence summarizes the interminable attempts that have been made to prove that the dream of the... | |
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... a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery... 
