...the " Prayer of Twenty Millions," to which President Lincoln replied, August 22, 1862. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If i could...

...not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...without 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 do it by freeing some and leaving...

...to the policy I 'seem to be pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. . . . My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if could do it by freeing some and leaving others...

...prevent, the restoration of the Union. In his letter to Mr. Greeley, on the 2ad of August, 1862, he said : "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and...

...was " an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union." President Lincoln in his reply said : — My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . . What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save tnis Union...

...War. President Lincoln's declaration in August 1861 that his primary objective in the Civil War was "to save the Union" and "not either to save or destroy slavery" affirmed a war aim widely shared by Northern whites. Preservation of the Union, not abolition of slavery,...

...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. "': In the South slaves cooked in army camps, built fortifications, drove munitions wagons, tilled...

...evidence of presidential culpability, the editorial cited Lincoln's famous reply to Horace Greeley: "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." "Could anything be plainer, could anything be meaner, could any thing be more diabolically selfish?"...

...Lincoln wrote in his famous August 22, 1862, letter to Horace Greeley, "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."73 During a debate with Stephen Douglas on September 18, 1858, Lincoln...

...fond of quoting out of context: "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 What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe...