 | David J. Staley - Forecasting - 2007 - 198 pages
...subjects to think-aloud their impressions of the piece: I will say here . . . that 1 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 1 have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 172 pages
...election. Lincoln won the popular vote aided by such wit as: 21 AUGUST. 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 chestnut horse to be a horse chestnut. [63] 29 As the judge had complimented me as highly as he had,... | |
 | Arthur Ripstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 10 pages
...the states where it already existed. As he put it in his first inaugural address, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe that I have no lawful right to do so." Indeed, he reiterated his endorsement of the 1 860 Republican... | |
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