 | Evan Carton - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 401 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." For southerners, however, nothing the Republicans might say could neutralize what Brown had done. The... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 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. —ABRAHAM LINGoLN, March 1861 When he took office in March 1861, ending slavery did not loom large... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 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. Having said this, Lincoln then went on to publicly endorse a proposed constitutional amendment that... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 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 . . . Lincolns inauguration ceremony, March 4, 1861 LIM OI NT \KI-s I HI ( I\l H \s I'RI-SIDI Nl Abraham... | |
 | Clint Johnson - History - 2007 - 288 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." But in the same speech, Lincoln made it very clear what would provoke war: "The power confided to me... | |
 | Paul Calore - History - 2014 - 306 pages
...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." But in a veiled threat he reminded the rebellious southern states, "In your hands, my dissatisfied... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 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. "... In our nation's history, no problem resulted in so much soul searching as the question that faced... | |
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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. 
