 My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I...  The History of Nations - Page 761edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 pages
...said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | 1862 - 620 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | 1863 - 798 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because I believe it... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 206 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object. is to savetke Union, and not either to tave or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 676 pages
...ofgrrt is to save the Vhion and not either to gave or destroy tlarfry. If T could save tho Union without alono, I would also do tliat. What I do about nlavcry and the colored rnce, I do because I believe... | |
 | John Minor Botts - 1866 - 416 pages
...the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. "If I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. " What I do about slavery or the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 pages
...freeing any slave. I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would do it." He T7as not yet quite prepared to issue a proclamation fraught with such momentous consequences... | |
 | 1870 - 696 pages
...said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 730 pages
...said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - 1870 - 286 pages
...freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do it." From the very beginning of the war, escaped slaves crowded within the Federal lines. They were... | |
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