 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
 | Louis S. Gerteis - 2001 - 432 pages
...... 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."1 When Lincoln wrote these words, he had already decided on an emancipation... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 pages
...paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union," Lincoln wrote, "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 do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 456 pages
...for emancipation with his A ugust 20th editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions." Lincoln replied: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone 1 would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 pages
...abolitionists, but his intended audience was their ever much larger number of opponents. He wrote: "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." Easler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Lincoln, 5:388. As far as it... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 388 pages
...and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolina Campaigns (1985). PART 3 Wartime Politics 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. — Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862 Forty acres . . . and a hut would... | |
 | Randall G. Holcombe - 2002 - 352 pages
...this opinion in 1862, shortly before issuing his Emancipation Proclamation: "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."6 The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, gave the... | |
 | Peder Jones, Jay Farness - 2002 - 478 pages
...ideas. 1 . My paramount object in [the Civil War] 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. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty;... | |
 | Nathan W. Schlueter - 2002 - 212 pages
...1862: "My paramount objective 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 1 would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Demetrius Lynn Eudell - 2002 - 252 pages
...the United States, made it clear that abolition remained subordinate to larger political objectives: "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... | |
 | Harriet Hyman Alonso - 2002 - 436 pages
...reunited. As he wrote to Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune, "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."46 Willie agreed with his father, noting to his sister, Fanny, that he... | |
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