 | Edward McPherson - 1882 - 680 pages
...fnct that the President, in hid inaugural adiïrcss of tbe 4th day of March, 1801, declared, "1 h.ive no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it existe; I believe I bave no right to do so, and 1 htivo no inclination to do... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 pages
...Lincoln, entered formally on the duties of his office. In his inaugural address he declared that he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. He had no lawful right to do so, and he had no inclination to do so.... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1883 - 756 pages
...misconceptions. 'Anything,' he said, ' that argues me into the idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic...words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to he a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or... | |
 | John Hamilton Se Chevereli - 1883 - 296 pages
...— Formation of the Regiment. President Lincoln, in his inaugural address of March 4, 1861, said: "1 have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe that I have no lawful right, and I have no inclination to do so." The South had apparently decided... | |
 | David W. Lusk - 1884 - 586 pages
...organized, confiding in the declaration of the President, in his inaugural address, to-wit: "That he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it existed, and that he believed he had no lawful right to do so, and that he had... | |
 | 1884 - 852 pages
...in his inaugural address as President, repeated and emphasized his former declaration that "he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it existed." And when the war was over and the victory won, he was far too shrewd... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1884 - 430 pages
...published 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 instistitution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so,... | |
 | Sir Lepel Henry Griffin, Lepel Henry Griffin - 1884 - 210 pages
...in his inaugural address as President, repeated and emphasised his former declaration that " he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it existed." And when the war was over and the victory won, he was far too shrewd... | |
 | Sir Lepel Henry Griffin, Lepel Henry Griffin - 1884 - 244 pages
...in his inaugural address as President, repeated and emphasised his former declaration that " he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it existed." And when the war was over and the victory won, he was far too shrewd... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - 1886 - 890 pages
...should tread her soil. In his inaugural message, on the 4th of March, Mr. Lincoln said: "I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the State where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination."... | |
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I equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which 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... 
