 | John Roy Musick - 1895 - 580 pages
...Eepublican party or President Lincoln. In his inaugural address, March 4, 1861, Mr. Lincoln said : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in any State where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Campaign debates - 1895 - 584 pages
...man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution in the States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do; so. I have no inclination to do so.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 846 pages
...without result. 1831, Mar. 4, Pres. Lincoln was inaugurated at Washington. In his address he said: ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe that I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.' The opening of hostilities... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1897 - 694 pages
...journey to Washington secretly, by night train. In his inaugural address (§ 442), the President said : " I have no purpose, 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 intention to do so." Passing... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1898 - 682 pages
...he stated the broad lines of the policy he intended to pursue. He began by declaring that he had " no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with...of slavery in the states where it exists. . . . I have no inclination to do so." He held that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 814 pages
...Proclamation: and (3) Whilst Mr. Lincoln issued that proclamation, he said in his first inaugural: " I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. / believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...given expression in the period since his election. It was conciliatory, but clear and firm. He said, "I have no purpose directly, or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Eli Greenawalt Foster - United States - 1899 - 316 pages
...following detached sentences will express Lincoln's views on some of the leading issues of that hour : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in any of the States where it exists." " The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 pages
...speeches of him who now addresses you. 1 do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. 1 believe 1 have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 pages
...horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, either directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawfill right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political... | |
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I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. 
