 | Matthew Evangelista - History - 2005 - 456 pages
...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." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 50. 84 Hansard's Parliamentary Debates... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...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." He turned then to the controversial Fugitive Slave Law, repeating his tenet that while "safeguards"... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - History - 2005 - 125 pages
...indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so" (Zinn 184). Later, in a letter to Horace Greeley, he made clear how little he cared about slaves. "My... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - Political Science - 2005 - 360 pages
...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" (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents 1989). Yet the secession of southern states and the pressures... | |
 | Gary Jeffrey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 50 pages
...INDIRECTLY, TO INTERFERE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IN THE STATES WHERE IT EXISTS, l BELIEVE I HAVE NO LAWFUL RIGHT TO DO SO, AND I HAVE NO INCLINATION TO DO SO. /7 MARCH 4, 1861, INAUGURATION PAY. WITH ARMEP 6UARPS AT EVERY WINPOW OF THE CAPITOL, THE NEW PRESIPENT... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 pages
...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...more than this, they placed in the platform, for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves, and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 pages
...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...similar declarations, and had never recanted them. Lincoln said it and he meant it. Though he denied the South's right to secede, he assured it there... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...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...so. Those who nominated and elected me, did so with the full knowledge that I had made this, and made innny similar declarations, and had never recanted... | |
 | William Sanders Scarborough - History - 2006 - 557 pages
...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." It will be remembered that Mr. Lincoln issued a preliminary document warning the rebellious States... | |
 | Adam S. Miller - Catholics - 2006 - 214 pages
...and that he had "no purpose to interfere with 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." In a special session of Congress on July 4l , Lincoln formally declared that the purpose of the war... | |
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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. 
