 | Elaine Brown - Social Science - 2003 - 404 pages
...directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. 1 believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."45 Moreover, even as the war dragged on and Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...assured southerners, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." 5 He did not back down, however, from his opposition to the extension of slavery into the territories.... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...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...have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...address, in which he said, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists, I believe I...lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."12 Lincoln thus distinguished his personal moral convictions from the actions he felt he could... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
..."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 concludes with these remarkable words: — "I reiterate these sentiments (ie, those propounded at... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...to the country : " 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 / home no inclination to do so" This assurance was again repeated after the commencement of hostilities,... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...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 believe I...have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...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 believe I...have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and... | |
 | Matthew Evangelista - History - 2005 - 456 pages
...address, Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 50. 84 Hansard's Parliamentary Debates... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...had promised that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He turned then to the controversial Fugitive Slave Law, repeating his tenet that while "safeguards"... | |
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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. 
