...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...institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position ....

...Source B: Abraham Lincoln from first Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa, Illinois, 21 August 1858 ... I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...institution of slavery in the States where it exists ... I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races ......

...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 so." Those...

...delivered, no intention of entering upon war for the manumission of the slave: — "I have," 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...

...masterstroke of political craft." Nor was Lincoln merely talking for effect when he reiterated that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." The Constitution and constitutional law had erected a firewall between...

...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...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...

...(Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1957). pp. 26-44. 83 In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain and the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 50. 84 Hansard's Parliamentary Debates...

...1998). In a speech in 1858, President Lincoln said: I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...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....

...speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches, when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar...

...containment would eventually lead to extinction. From the start of his first inaugural address, he said, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere...right to do so and I have no inclination to do so" (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents 1989). Yet the secession of southern states and the pressures...