 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 426 pages
...party, never then dreaming perhaps of bcing a candidate for the Presidency, was known to have said, " I have no purpose, 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 se." Upon which,... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 426 pages
...while existed, and bcen open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published spceches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those spceches when I deelare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...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 oue of those speeches, when I declare that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 502 pages
...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...institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I helieve I have no lawful right to do so, and have no inclination to do so.' Those who nominated and... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...address, had seen fit to add to them, and, quoting from a former speech, announced to the country : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right tc do so, and / have no inclination to do so." This assurance was again repeated after the commencement... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - United States - 1868 - 426 pages
...an administration would encroach upon the constitutional rights of any State, he said that he had " no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it existed; that he, as well as every Member of Congress, was sworn to support... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...affirming that he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery views ^slavery at m the states where it exists. "I believe I have no lawful right, and I have no intention to do so." The President's . ., , . -. ., • , ^Tiv T No better exposition... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 404 pages
...his own words : " If slavery is not wrong," said Mr. Lincoln, " then nothing is wrong." And again, " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...in the States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He was, as his biographer justly remarks, "a native... | |
 | Mountague Bernard - Great Britain - 1870 - 542 pages
...admirer of Henry Clay, and was now a staunch but sober Republican. " I have no purpose," he had said, " directly or 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." And he repeated these words in... | |
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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. 
