...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...

...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...

...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...

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...la found 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,...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so" [I860]. Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many...

...any other portion ; when neither birth, nor wealth, nor even education and religion, quote from one of those speeches when I declare that ' I have no...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 other...

...nearly all the " public speeches of him who now addresses you,—I " do but quote from one of these speeches when I " declare that ' I have no purpose,...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. " Those who nominated and elected me did so with the " full knowledge that I had made this, and had...

...he made in his inaugural address on March 4, ] 861, when he assumed the office of President : — " I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar...

...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...right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." . And the Thirty Sixth Congress, by a unanimous vote, declared, " That neither the Congress of the...

...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...right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.' The Federal Government has no right to meddle with slavery in the States or in the territories farther...