 | John C. Pemberton - History - 2002 - 384 pages
...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; I have no inclination to do so." Although Eilet of the Union navy had earlier run the Vicksburg batteries... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 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...here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere ivith the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...AEOLITIONISTS. 217 and, quoting from a former speech, announced to the country : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and / home no inclination to do so" This assurance was again repeated after the commencement of hostilities,... | |
 | John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...Lincoln from first Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa, Illinois, 21 August 1858 ... I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the 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
...did not mean that black people were legally inferior. "I will say here . . . that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the 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 .... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...to "define" him as a race-mixer and abolitionist. . . . Anything that argues me into his [Douglas's] 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 . . . that I have no purpose directly... | |
 | Christopher Heath Wellman - Philosophy - 2005 - 236 pages
...(IV, 141 )2 At his inauguration in March 1861, he put the point more directly: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...in the States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." (IV, 250) The well-known irony is that, while... | |
 | Jason Porterfield - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...Speaking in obscure legal language and repeating worn jokes, Lincoln questioned Douglas's logic as a "fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." Lincoln was largely satisfied with his first debate appearance. Most of his supporters, however, felt... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 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 of slavery in the States where it exists. I beMeve I have no lawf ul right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and... | |
 | Rudolph Alexander (Jr.) - Law - 2005 - 176 pages
...Union by preserving slavery, he would (Williams, 1998). In a speech in 1858, President Lincoln said: 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.... | |
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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... 
