 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
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 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 some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." ' But Abraham Lincoln... | |
 | Charles Washington Moores - 1900 - 156 pages
...Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...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;... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1900 - 594 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 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 save it by free* ing some and... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - 760 pages
...save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My prime object in this struggle is to save the Union and is...without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all of the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | William Hannibal Thomas - 1901 - 476 pages
...continuance in the selfishness of man. " My paramount object," said he, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery; if I could...without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Yet he was mindful to... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...had written to the editor of the New York Tribune : "My paramount object is to save the union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 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 do it ; and if I '° us could save it by freeing some... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 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...and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving 331 others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree ffith 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1902 - 194 pages
...with them. 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 I could save it by freeing some and... | |
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