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. 458-1880 - Seite 2531921Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Jean M. Humez - 2006 - 488 Seiten
...Lincoln was writing a letter to representatives of the Virginia secession convention, reminding them that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so" (Sewell, 1988, 161). Lincoln was still unprepared to issue an Emancipation Proclamation, and though... | |
| Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 Seiten
...he felt that his personal principles should remain distinct from his duty as president, and avowed that 'I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.' The two sides that squared up to fight the Civil War were clearly demarcated by slavery. Slaves constituted... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 Seiten
...of the slaves and their abolitionist friends. As late as the First Inaugural, Lincoln could write: '"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so'" (CPF4:263). Is it quite right to say of such a man that he was a lover of justice, if that love could... | |
| 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...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union;... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 Seiten
...in nearly all the 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,...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... | |
| Elaine Brown - 2003 - 404 Seiten
...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... | |
| 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...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.... | |
| 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...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 - 2004 - 760 Seiten
...them, FALSITY OF THE AEOLITIONISTS. 217 and, quoting from a former speech, announced to the country : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...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,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 2004 - 372 Seiten
...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...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
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