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. The Quarterly Review - Página 2411862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 2004 - 372 páginas
...this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere ivith 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. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between... | |
| Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 páginas
...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 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 inclination to do so." Those... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 páginas
...masterstroke of political craft." Nor was Lincoln merely talking for effect when he reiterated that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." The Constitution and constitutional law had erected a firewall between... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - 2004 - 414 páginas
...delivered, no intention of entering upon war for the manumission of the slave: — "I have," he says, "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 inclination to do so." He... | |
| Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - 2005 - 360 páginas
...containment would eventually lead to extinction. From the start of his first inaugural address, he said, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so and I have no inclination to do so" (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents 1989). Yet the secession... | |
| Heather Andrea Williams - 2009 - 320 páginas
...and personal security are to be endangered." But, he consoled southern interests; "I declare that — I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."2 Although Lincoln's proclaimed intention to leave slavery intact... | |
| David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 páginas
...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 or indirectly, to interfere...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 a full knowledge... | |
| Larry D. Mansch - 2005 - 246 páginas
...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 or indirectly, to interfere...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 knowledge... | |
| David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 páginas
...which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse. (Laughter.) I will say here . . . that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
| Matthew Evangelista - 2005 - 456 páginas
...1832 (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1957). pp. 26-44. 83 In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 50.... | |
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