 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...  St. Nicholas - Page 828edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Edward Channing - 1898 - 682 pages
...Constitution. . . . 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." The true heart and singleness of purpose which animated Lincoln, as well... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 pages
...Greeley, in part as follows: My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to st unnerved him; that he was going to his alma mater...whose deepening interest had followed every step of hi alone, I would also do that. * * * I shall try to correct errors when shown to he errors, and I shall... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - 1899 - 564 pages
...August, 1862, Mr. Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley : — 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. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1899 - 614 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." Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862. 1863.] THE WAR IN THE EAST.... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1899 - 588 pages
...declared: " 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." 2 After such a candid statement it would have been very shallow hypocrisy... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 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 the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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 the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 624 pages
...with them. 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 doit; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | James Schouler - 1899 - 686 pages
...declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. * " We wait beneath the furnace blast save it by freeing... | |
 | James Schouler - 1899 - 870 pages
...declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. 2 " We wait beneath the furnace blast The pangs of transformation... | |
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