 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...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 with full...declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, the}^ placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do 60. Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar...resolution which I now read : — ^-Resolved, that the maintainance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...right to do so, 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 many similar...the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: — "Hcsoh-cil, that the maintainance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...to do so, 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 many similar...for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read : ' Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...knowledge that 1 hart made ILis and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And Bore than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance,...me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now tead : — Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 pages
...States where it exists." I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so. And, more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read : Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 pages
...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 with full...the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read : ' Resohed, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarationSj and had never recanted them. And, more than this,...the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: /, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...where it exists./' I believe I have no lawf ul right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarationSj and had never recanted them. And, more than this, they placed in the platform for my... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...exists.' I believe I have no lawful right to do 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." These were reassuring words ; words anxiously designed to conciliate the South, to remove possible... | |
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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. 
