 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
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 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 where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
...delivered, no intention of entering upon war for the manumission of the slave: — "I have," he says, "no purpose, directly or 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." He... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...masterstroke of political craft." Nor was Lincoln merely talking for effect when he reiterated that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." The Constitution and constitutional law had erected a firewall between... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - Political Science - 2005 - 360 pages
...containment would eventually lead to extinction. From the start of his first inaugural address, he 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" (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents 1989). Yet the secession... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse. (Laughter.) I will say here . . . that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 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 no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge... | |
 | Matthew Evangelista - History - 2005 - 456 pages
...1832 (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1957). pp. 26-44. 83 In his first inaugural address, Lincoln 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." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 50.... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 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 no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge... | |
 | Heather Andrea Williams - Social Science - 2009 - 320 pages
...and personal security are to be endangered." But, he consoled southern interests; "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."2 Although Lincoln's proclaimed intention to leave slavery intact... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...of him who now addresses 10 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 15 inclination to do so. F¿¿¿PAG7. Those who nominated and elected me did so with... | |
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