 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 758 pages
...to add to them,, and, quoting from a former speech, announced to the country : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so" This assurance was again repeated after the commencement of hostilities, as if there was the most anxious... | |
 | George Lunt - History - 1866 - 518 pages
...President and of Congress. The late President said, in his Inaugural Address : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so." Immediately after the battle of Bull Run (July 23d, 1861), Congress resolved, by nearly a unanimous... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches, when I declare that " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...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 made many... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...now addresses you. I do but quote, from one of those speeches when I declare that ll have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...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 made many... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches, when I declare that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...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 made many... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...extremities. He made, on this occasion, the following statement : — " I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...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,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...of said State." Abraham Lincoln, in his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861, says : " I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." President Lincoln again says in his Inaugural Address of March 4th, 1861 : "I understand a proposed... | |
 | Jean M. Humez - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 489 pages
...letter to representatives of the Virginia secession convention, reminding them that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so" (Sewell, 1988, 161). Lincoln was still unprepared to issue an Emancipation Proclamation, and though... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...problems were severe. He addressed the Confederacy in his inaugural address, saying: / have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union;... | |
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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. 
