 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...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. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
 | Greg Ward - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...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.' The two sides that squared up to fight the Civil War were clearly demarcated by slavery. Slaves constituted... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...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. It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union;... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...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'" (CPF4:263). Is it quite right to say of such a man that he was a lover of justice, if that love could... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 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. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," Lincoln replied, and "no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races." But this much was not the real issue of the year 1858 in Illinois — the real issue was whether Douglas,... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...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 who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...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
...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... | |
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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. 
