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. The London Quarterly Review - Page 1251862Full view - About this book
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...speeches 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...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 so with the full knowledge... | |
| 1863 - 856 pages
...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...exists." I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have uo inclination to do so. And, more than this, they placed in the platform, for my acceptance,... | |
| 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...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Further on he referred to the Chicago declaration, above quoted,... | |
| 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...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He expressed in the same speech his willingness that the Fugitive... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...speeches 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...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 so with a full knowledge... | |
| United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...speeches 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - Indiana - 1863 - 850 pages
...in his inaugural message (and repeated the same in his annual message in substance) as follows : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." . And the Thirty Sixth Congress, by a unanimous vote, declared,... | |
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