...inaugural address affords an exposition of the policy of the new government. It contains these words : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this, and...

...movement had fully set in, and its subsequent reiteration by President Lincoln in his inaugural address. ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so,' said Mr. Lincoln, in a speech delivered before his inauguration ; and ' I now reiterate...

...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that " 1 have no purpose , directly or indirectly , to interfere...no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that 1 had made this, and...

...has all the while existed , and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the public speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote...purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the instifution of slavery in the Slates where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and...

...most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him...no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me, did so with a full knowledge that I had made this, and...

...most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him...no lawful 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,...

...most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him...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...

...in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches when I declare that" I have no purpose, directly...believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have uo inclination to do so. And, more than this, they placed in the platform, for my acceptance, and as...

...agreement with hell." Mr. Lincoln, on the other hand, said most distinctly, in his inaugural address : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He expressed in the same speech his willingness that the Fugitive Slave Law, as a provision...

...endurance of our political fabric depend'' The present President. in his inaugural address, said : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Further on he referred to the Chicago declaration, above quoted, as binding on him and his...