 | Joseph Villiers Denney - 1910 - 348 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...similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And 25 more than this, they placed in the platform for my ac176 ceptance, and as a law to themselves and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I 20 have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full...law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic 25 resolution which I now read : Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 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 10 this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1913 - 330 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...similar declarations, and had never recanted them. ' ' He then read a resolution adopted by the Convention which nominated him, declaring, "that the maintenance... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 476 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 declarations, and had never recanted them. . . . A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold... | |
 | New Hampshire. State Historian - Concord (N.H.) - 1914 - 132 pages
...to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated me and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them. Again, he said in his letter to Horace Greeley, in August, 1862, — I would save the Union. I would... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 218 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...I had made this and many similar declarations, and I have never recanted 25 them. And, more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance,... | |
 | 1916 - 330 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...similar declarations, and had never recanted them." And he closes this admirable address as follows: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 680 pages
...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.' Those who have nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge...similar declarations, and had never recanted them.' . . . I now reiterate these sentiments; and, in doing so, I only press upon the public attention the... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 354 pages
...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who have nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge...similar declarations, and had never recanted them.' . . . I now reiterate these sentiments; and, in doing so, I only press upon the public attention the... | |
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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. 
