 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches, when I declare that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with...in the States where it exists.' I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me, did... | |
 | Massachusetts register - 1862 - 496 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 1180 pages
...fact that the President, in his inaugural address of the 4th day of March, 1861, declared, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with...exists; I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so:" Therefore, Resolved, As the judgment of this house, that the maintenance... | |
 | Edward Dicey - Abolitionists - 1863 - 344 pages
...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...the " States where it exists.' I believe I have no lawful " right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. " Those who nominated and elected me did... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Thanksgiving Day addresses - 1863 - 44 pages
...wealth, nor even education and religion, quote from one of those speeches when I declare that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with...in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.' Those who nominated and elected me, did... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 pages
...was recognised by the Constitution, and that he had no right to interfere with it.* He said: ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with...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 Federal Government has no right to... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 pages
...recognised by the Constitution, and that he had no right to interfere with it.* He said : ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with...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 Federal Government has no right to... | |
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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. 
