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. 458-1880 - Page 2531921Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...probably have been very different. In his inaugural message in March 1861, President Lincoln said, " / have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." And in a letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...found in nearly all the public speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly...similar declarations, and had never recanted them.' " The message concluded thus : — "The fate of the Confederacy, under the blessing of Divine Providence,... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists ; I believe that I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." In Motley's mind the matter is perfectly simple, and he can brook no wavering or weighing of arguments... | |
| 1864 - 492 pages
...reasonable ground for such an apprehension. I quote one of my former speeches, in which I declared that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in states where it exists.' I believe I have no lawful right, as I have no inclination^ to do so. Those... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...a 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...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...a 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...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...which a man can prove a horsechestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I Lave no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. 1 will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to^lo so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...a 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 of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and 1 have no inclination... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...a 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 of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
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