 | Preston D. Graham - 2002 - 332 pages
...motives for the proclamation: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | Randall G. Holcombe - 2002 - 352 pages
...his Emancipation Proclamation: "My paramount objective 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... | |
 | Demetrius Lynn Eudell - 2002 - 252 pages
...to larger political objectives: "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;... | |
 | Jerrold M. Packard - 2002 - 316 pages
...themselves of membership in the United States. "My paramount objective in this struggle," he wrote, "is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." He made clear, however, that this represented his official view and equally clear that his persona/... | |
 | 2003 - 260 pages
...device of the public letter, in this instance having the dignity of a state paper, Lincoln answered, "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;... | |
 | Khalil Amani - 2003 - 244 pages
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 | Arnie Bernstein - 2003 - 308 pages
...save the Union," he wrote in August 1862 to Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, "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;... | |
 | Elaine Brown - 2003 - 404 pages
...meant to leave any one in doubt. 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." 51 [ 9 ] Post-Emancipation Fight for Freedom We have pioneered civilizatlan... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
