 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...inspection. It is found in nearly all the published ipeeches of him who now addresses you. I do bat quote from one of those speeches when I declare that...or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of fUvery in the States where it exists. I believe I h»7e no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 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...addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches, wher. I declare that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...ample evidence to tho 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 tlio.se speeches, when I declare that " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.' I believe 1 have no lawful 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 made many... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - United States - 1865 - 160 pages
...administration." In the same State paper he had before said, quoting approvingly from one of his own speeches, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists ;" and subjoined, " 1 believe 1 have no latpful right to .do so,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is fonnd in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do bat quote from one of those speeches when I declare that " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...most 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...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... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...number of southern states had seceded but before any shots had been fired, he assured southerners, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...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.... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...pragmatism, or fine parsing of language is also reflected in his first inaugural address, in which he said, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...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... | |
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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. 
