 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 492 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 have no inclination to do so.' Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...to add to them, and, quoting from a former speech, announced to the country : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right tc do so, and / have no inclination to do so." This assurance was again repeated after the commencement... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 502 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 helieve I have no lawful right to do so, and have no inclination to do so.' Those who nominated and... | |
 | John William Draper - Slaves - 1868 - 628 pages
...affirming that he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery views ^slavery at m the states where it exists. "I believe I have no lawful right, and I have no intention to do so." The President's . ., , . -. ., • , ^Tiv T No better exposition... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 404 pages
...slavery is not wrong," said Mr. Lincoln, " then nothing is wrong." And again, " 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." He was, as his biographer justly remarks, "a native... | |
 | Mountague Bernard - Great Britain - 1870 - 542 pages
...admirer of Henry Clay, and was now a staunch but sober Republican. " I have no purpose," he had said, " 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." And he repeated these words in... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey F. Black - 1872 - 604 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...States where it exists." I believe I have no lawful 34 right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 822 pages
...to the southern states for apprehendin? any invasion of their rights, lie said : "I hare no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the Institution...of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe that I have ni> lawful ri^ht to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and... | |
 | 1874 - 810 pages
...to the southern states for apprehending any invasion of their rights. He said : u 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, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 902 pages
...now addresses yon. I do but quote from one of those speeches whdn I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do BO-, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge... | |
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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... 
