 | John Alexander Logan - 1886 - 912 pages
...EXECUTION OF THE CONFISCATION ACT" DEMANDED — MR. LINCOLN'S FAMOUS REPLY —HIS "PARAMOUNT OBJECT, TO SAVE THE UNION, AND NOT EITHER TO SAVE OR DESTROY SLAVERY " — VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE OF A RELIGIOUS DEPUTATION FROM CHICAGO — MEMORIAL ASKING FOR IMMEDIATE... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 pages
...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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 800 pages
...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... | |
 | 1888 - 924 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert J. Scarry - 2001 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | Gary L. Bunker - 2001 - 410 pages
...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?"... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 pages
...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... | |
 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - 2002 - 486 pages
...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... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
