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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. "
The American Idea as Expounded by American Statesmen - Page 154
1902 - 311 pages
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The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery

Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...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 BO." President Lincoln again says in his Inaugural Address of March 4th, 1861 : "I understand a proposed...
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Southern History of the War, Volume 1

Edward Alfred Pollard - United States - 1866 - 1314 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists;" and subjoined, "I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." 3. In Secretary Seward's famous letter to the minister of the United States, resident at Paris, designed...
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Southern History of the War: The Last Year of the War

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 398 pages
...to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists ;" and subjoined, "7 believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." 3. In Secretary Seward's famous letter to the minister of the United States, resident at Paris, designed...
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War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis: Consisting of Observations ...

Henry Stuart Foote - History - 1866 - 672 pages
...have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in tiie states where it exists? I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no intention to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with this and many similar declarations,...
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure

John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 426 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 bad...
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure

John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 426 pages
...exists. I believe I haro no lawful right to do so, and I have no inelination to do so. These \vlio nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar deelarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they placed in the platform...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 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 / have no inclination to do so." This assurance was again repeated after the commencement of hostilities,...
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War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis

Henry Stuart Foote - United States - 1866 - 452 pages
...directly or indirectly, to interfere witli the institution of slavery in (lie states where it earisls.' I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no intention to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with this and many similar declarations,...
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure

John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Upon which, together with other similar declarations during his canvass in the State of Illinois, Judah...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 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 BO; and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge...
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