 | Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt - Art - 2000 - 1096 pages
...on March 4, included an assurance taken from one of his previous speeches that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so,"said Lincoln, "and I have no inclination to do so." Daily National Intelligencer, Mar. 5, 1861.... | |
 | Robin W. Winks - History - 1998 - 460 pages
...The Secretary of State was adept at what Lincoln called "the horse-chestnut style of argument" — "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." 2 Seward 1 FO 5, 827: April, 1862; London Canadian News, Jan. 30, Feb. 13, 1862; Montreal Gazette,... | |
 | Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller - Political Science - 1998 - 610 pages
...Van Nostrand, 1957), pp. 26-44. 83. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution...of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe 1 have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...institution of slavery or the black race, and this is the whole of it; any thing that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastical arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse.... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...prejudices of his audience even as he struck a blow for simple justice: be a chestnut horse. [Laughter.] I will say 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.... | |
 | Gregory H. Fox, Brad R. Roth - Law - 2000 - 604 pages
...cause. One paper said the most 89 In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do s0, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Ca,il \\'ar, supra... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - History - 2001 - 280 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 chestnut to be a chestnut horse. (Laughter.) I will say here, while upon this subject, that I... | |
 | Arthur A. Sloane - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 220 pages
...style" of argument, which to the delight of his many supporters in the crowd he defined as meaning "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." When Douglas tried to negate a Lincoln argument by questioning the honesty of the senator whom Lincoln... | |
 | Robert J. Dole - Presidents - 2001 - 250 pages
...bursting out in wonderful exuberance." -Ljincoln made light of Douglas's arguments, what he called "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." J_he famed Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 did much to establish... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...white Emancipator images. But as history, Forced Into Glory brings to mind Lincoln's comment about "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." Easier, et al., eds., Collected Works of Lincoln, 3:16. If... | |
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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... 
