 | James Parton - 1872 - 592 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle it 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;... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 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...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... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 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...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;... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - 1873 - 744 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. 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... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 622 pages
...her out from her great danger ; not to touch slavery unless her safety demanded it. He said : — " 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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1876 - 920 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. If I ri'tiM save the Union without freeing any slave, I »onld do it; if I could save it by freeing all... | |
 | James Quay Howard - 1876 - 266 pages
...the struggle for the Nation's life. As late as August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley: "My paramount object is to save the Union, and 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... | |
 | 1877 - 610 pages
...public opinion pushed him on. To the importunate protest of Greeley, made August 9, 1862, he said : "My paramount- object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it ; if I could... | |
 | Samuel Haughton - 1877 - 364 pages
..." President Lincoln, in a letter to Horace Greeley, writes : ' My paramount object in the struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.' " "Always excepting the few Abolitionists. For four years, masses of men of the same race were banded... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 pages
...impression, and was particularly disrelished by antislavery men. Saying that his paramount object was to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery, he added the famous epigrammatic utterance already quoted in these pages, and which was so often repeated,... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
