 | Bob Dye - 1997 - 304 páginas
...of our wood and drawer of our water, [to be] adjusted on principles of equity and mercy to both."2 "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," Lincoln said in his inaugural address. "I believe I have no lawful... | |
 | Charles Harris Wesley - 1997 - 338 páginas
...more danger than in the days of Washington." In the Inaugural Address of 1861 he disclaimed especially no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists and "any design to violate the rights of the states on the subject of... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - 1999 - 278 páginas
...his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastical arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut...directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution in the States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so. I have no inclination to do so.... | |
 | Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller - 1998 - 610 páginas
...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...of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe 1 have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Quoted in Adams, Great Britain... | |
 | Robin W. Winks - 1998 - 460 páginas
...The Secretary of State was adept at what Lincoln called "the horse-chestnut style of argument" — "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." 2 Seward 1 FO 5, 827: April, 1862; London Canadian News, Jan. 30, Feb. 13, 1862; Montreal Gazette,... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 páginas
..."anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the Negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." But it was Lincoln, on this conspiracy business, who was trying... | |
 | Chester G. Hearn - 2000 - 274 páginas
...contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these states is perpetual." He also said, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery. I believe I have no lawful right to do so and I have no inclination to do so."38 Anybody comparing... | |
 | Arthur A. Sloane - 2001 - 220 páginas
...style" of argument, which to the delight of his many supporters in the crowd he defined as meaning "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." When Douglas tried to negate a Lincoln argument by questioning the honesty of the senator whom Lincoln... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2001 - 532 páginas
...fugitive-slave law, and he repeated this view in his first inaugural address, in which he also said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." To conduct a great war, through years of difficulty and ill success,... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - 2001 - 280 páginas
...anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse. (Laughter.) I will say here, while upon this subject, that I... | |
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... a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in... 
