...but he 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 ......

..."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 concludes with these remarkable words: — "I reiterate these sentiments (ie, those propounded at...

...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, directly...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...

...open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of these speeches, when I declare...so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And...

...no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States Mr. where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right...similar declarations, and had never recanted them,'* He also declared, in this same address, that he had no objection to the proposition which had just...

...1832 (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...

...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...

...the anxieties of the Southern people, quoting an earlier speech in which he had promised that he had "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He turned then to the controversial Fugitive Slave Law, repeating his tenet that while "safeguards"...

...of him who now addresses 10 you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that—I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere...believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no 15 inclination to do so. F¿¿¿PAG7. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge...