 | Samuel Lucas - History - 1862 - 424 pages
...endurance of our political fabric depend'' The present President. in his inaugural address, said : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Further on he referred to the Chicago declaration, above quoted, as binding on him and his administration,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1862 - 632 pages
...agreement with hell." Mr. Lincoln, on the other hand, said most distinctly, in his inaugural address : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He expressed in the same speech his willingness that the Fugitive Slave Law, as a provision of the... | |
 | 1862 - 628 pages
...it in the most unreserved and unqualified manner. In his inaugural address he solemnly declared — 'I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 600 pages
...in the most unreserved and unqualified manner. In his inaugural address he solemnly declared — ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all 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, to interfere with the... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...elements of the day. We will state his most important positions. His Position. He said, at the outset, " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," and affirmed the right of each State to control its own domestic institutions... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 830 pages
...and Madison, through a longperiod of the country's early history. Mr. Lincoln declares that " he has no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists." The votes and resolutions in the convention that formed the Chicago Platform expressly... | |
 | Indiana. Citizens - Indiana - 1862 - 40 pages
...which I liave referred, but also bis own deliberate announcement in his inaugural address, that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists" — that he believed lie had "no lawful right to do so," and that he... | |
 | Edward Dicey - Abolitionists - 1863 - 344 pages
...nearly all the " public speeches of him who now addresses you,—I " do but quote from one of these speeches when I " declare that ' I have no purpose,...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. " Those who nominated and elected me did so with the " full knowledge that I had made this, and had... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...he made in his inaugural address on March 4, ] 861, when he assumed the office of President : — " I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
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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. 
