 | 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 .... | |
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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... 
