| Elaine Brown - 2003 - 404 Seiten
...planters. In his inaugural address in March 1861 he told them, along with the rest of ihe country, "I have no purpose, 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... | |
| Jean M. Humez - 2006 - 489 Seiten
...Lincoln was writing a letter to representatives of the Virginia secession convention, reminding them that "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... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 Seiten
...of the slaves and their abolitionist friends. As late as the First Inaugural, Lincoln could write: 8 5 c "o x v% slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 Seiten
...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 in the States where it exists. 1 believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
| Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - 2003 - 367 Seiten
...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 in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination... | |
| Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 Seiten
...4, 1861, his problems were severe. He addressed the Confederacy in his inaugural address, saying: / 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... | |
| Jeremy Roberts - 2004 - 120 Seiten
...he argued that it did not mean that black people were legally inferior. "I will say here . . . that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which... | |
| James P. Pfiffner - 2003 - 230 Seiten
...pragmatism, or fine parsing of language is also reflected in his first inaugural address, in which he said, "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... | |
| Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 Seiten
...number of southern states had seceded but before any shots had been fired, he assured southerners, "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... | |
| Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 Seiten
...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... | |
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