...endurance of our political fabric depend'' The present President. in his inaugural address, said : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Further on he referred to the Chicago declaration, above quoted,...

...agreement with hell." Mr. Lincoln, on the other hand, said most distinctly, in his inaugural address : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He expressed in the same speech his willingness that the Fugitive...

...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...exists." I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have uo inclination to do so. And, more than this, they placed in the platform, for my acceptance,...

...elements of the day. We will state his most important positions. His Position. He said, at the outset, " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," and affirmed the right of each State to control its own domestic institutions...

...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 now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination...

...which I liave referred, but also bis own deliberate announcement in his inaugural address, that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists" — that he believed lie had "no lawful right to do so," and that he...

...and Madison, through a longperiod of the country's early history. Mr. Lincoln declares that " he has no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists." The votes and resolutions in the convention that formed the Chicago Platform expressly...

...nor wealth, nor even education and religion, quote from one of those speeches when I declare that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...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 a full knowledge...

...slavery was recognised by the Constitution, and that he had no right to interfere with it.* He said : ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.' The Federal Government has no right to meddle with slavery in...

...in his inaugural message (and repeated the same in his annual message in substance) as follows : " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." . And the Thirty Sixth Congress, by a unanimous vote, declared,...