 | Elaine Brown - Social Science - 2003 - 404 pages
...directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. 1 believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."45 Moreover, even as the war dragged on and Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...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...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And, more than this, they... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...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." 5 He did not back down, however, from his opposition to the extension of slavery into the territories.... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
..."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 concludes with these remarkable words: — "I reiterate these sentiments (ie, those propounded at... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...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."12 Lincoln thus distinguished his personal moral convictions from the actions he felt he could... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...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 / home no inclination to do so" This assurance was again repeated after the commencement of hostilities,... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...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...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they... | |
 | John W. Burgess - History - 2005 - 385 pages
...no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States Mr. where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them,'* He also declared, in... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I beMeve I have no lawf ul right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."...nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And, more than this, they... | |
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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. 
