 My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is no.t 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 5 and if...  Answers to Questions - Page 237by Frederic Jennings Haskin - 1926 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Carl Theodor Eben - 1890 - 522 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 344 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...without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 346 pages
...the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle irto save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy...without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward - 1891 - 638 pages
...that end. As he himself tersely stated his position: "My paramount object is to save the Union; and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I _ could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it,... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1892 - 516 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I...without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by administration and the Republican party. He never gave them credit for honesty or... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - 1892 - 378 pages
...with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or 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 could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Bill Arp - 1893 - 242 pages
...letter to Horace Greeley, in August, 1862, he said : "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save t/ie Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 422 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount qbject is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, —... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
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