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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. "
The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion - Page 103
by Edward McPherson - 1865 - 653 pages
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure

John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 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 many similar declarations, and had never recanted them....
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services

Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 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 many similar declarations, and had never recanted...
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KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY;

1866 - 278 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 many similar declarations, and had never recanted...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 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. Those who nominated and elected me did so frith the full knowledge that I had made this, and made many similar declarations, and had never recanted...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 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. Those who nominated and elected me did BO with the full knowledge that I had made this, and made many similar declarations, and had never...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this, and made many similar declarations, and had never recanted...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...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...the institution of slavery in the states where it exists.' I believe I have no lawful right to do BO; and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this, and made many similar declarations, and had never recanted...
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The life and times of viscount Palmerston, Volume 2; Volume 87

James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 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. Those who elected me, did so with the full knowledge that I had made this, and similar declarations, and have...
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure

John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 426 pages
...nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar deelarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they placed in the platform for my aeceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the elear and emphatic resolution which I now read...
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Southern History of the War, Volume 1

Edward Alfred Pollard - United States - 1866 - 1314 pages
...with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists;" and subjoined, "I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." 3. In Secretary Seward's famous letter to the minister of the United States, resident at Paris, designed...
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