| John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...Source B: Abraham Lincoln from first Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa, Illinois, 21 August 1858 ... I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...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 ...... | |
| Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...the published speeches of him who 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 where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere ivith the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...masterstroke of political craft." Nor was Lincoln merely talking for effect when he reiterated that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." The Constitution and constitutional law had erected a firewall between... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
...delivered, no intention of entering upon war for the manumission of the slave: — "I have," he says, "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, and I have no inclination to do so." He... | |
| David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...all published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches, when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge... | |
| Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge... | |
| David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...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 or indirectly to interfere...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
| Matthew Evangelista - History - 2005 - 456 pages
...1832 (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1957). pp. 26-44. 83 In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Civil War, Vol. 1,... | |
| Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - Political Science - 2005 - 360 pages
...containment would eventually lead to extinction. From the start of his first inaugural address, he said, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so and I have no inclination to do so" (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents 1989). Yet the secession... | |
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