 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1218 pages
...President Lincoln was inaugurated at Washington. In his inaugural address, he said: "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." He also said, however: "The... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Oratory - 1904 - 510 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 35 believe I have, no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated... | |
 | William Gardner - 1905 - 256 pages
...when he makes an affirmative'charge, he must offer some proof of its truth. Douglas' argument about 'perfect social and political equality with the negro'...fantastic arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon the subject, that I have no purpose... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Statesmen - 1905 - 582 pages
...In his inaugural address he declared: "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." Jefferson Davis, the insurgent president, entertained the same view and made war to enforce it. Stanton,... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1905 - 690 pages
...the broad lines of the policy he intended to pursue. He began by declaring that he had " no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...of slavery in the states where it exists. . . . I have no inclination to do so." He held that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 350 pages
...institution of slavery or the black race, and this is the whole of it: anything 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 horsechestnut to be a chestnut horse. I... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1906 - 386 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 with the institution of slavery in the 5 states where it exists.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 322 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 440 pages
...institution of slavery, or the black race, and this is the whole of it; and anything 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.... | |
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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... 
