 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of Slavery in the States where it exists." I believe I have no lawful right...have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated aud elected me, did so with the full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I hare no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination...so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 632 pages
...have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with 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 consider that, in view of the constitution, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...he, "no purpose, directly, or indirectly, to interfere with 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." He explicitly recognized the obligation of enforcing the provision for the delivery of fugitive slaves.... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 500 pages
...have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with 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 consider that, in view of the constitution, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability... | |
 | Sir R. Arthur Arnold - Cotton famine, 1861-1864 - 1865 - 386 pages
...have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with ' 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.' We must confess in all humility that our purview was small indeed ; we neither foresaw the toilsome... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.7 I believe 1 have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected rne, did so with the full knowledge that I had made this, and made many similar declarations, and had... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...to do so." Those who nominate«: sad elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them....more than this, they placed in the platform for my accept anee, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inelination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me, did so with the full knowledge that I had... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - African-American soldiers - 1865 - 468 pages
...directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists ; " I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." It was in this spirit that on the 26th of July, 1861, I offered a resolution in Congress to make undiminished... | |
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I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with 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. 
