 | John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...Source B: Abraham Lincoln from first Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa, Illinois, 21 August 1858 ... I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...institution of slavery in the States where it exists ... I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races ...... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...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 - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...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...similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they placed in the platform, for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves, and... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...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...so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And... | |
 | Matthew Evangelista - History - 2005 - 456 pages
...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...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. 84 Hansard's Parliamentary Debates... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - Political Science - 2005 - 360 pages
...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...right to do so and I have no inclination to do so" (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents 1989). Yet the secession of southern states and the pressures... | |
 | Heather Andrea Williams - Social Science - 2009 - 320 pages
...and personal security are to be endangered." But, he consoled southern interests; "I declare that — I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."2 Although Lincoln's proclaimed intention to leave slavery intact would not be a static one, well... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...the anxieties of the Southern people, quoting an earlier speech in which he had promised that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He turned then to the controversial Fugitive Slave Law, repeating his tenet that while "safeguards"... | |
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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. 
