...administration." In the same State paper he had before said, quoting approvingly from one of his own speeches, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it now exists ;" and subjoined, " 1 believe 1 have no latpful right to .do so,...

...speeches of him who now addresses yon. I do bnt quote from one of those speeches when I declare that " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of «1атегу in the Stetes where it exists. I believe I hare no lawful right to do so, and I hare...

...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...

...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...

...ipeeches of him who now addresses you. I do bat quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of fUvery in the States where it exists. I believe I h»7e no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination...

...no ground to the Southern States for apprehending any invasion of their rights. "I have," said he, "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...

...the fact that the President, in his inaugural address of the 4th day of March, 1861, declared, " I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slaverv in the States where it exists ; I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination...

...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...

...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,...

...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....