 | Rev. W. D. Simonds - 1894 - 246 pages
...— - - M y paramount object 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 freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by treeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 pages
...with them. My paramount object 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 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 pages
...himself Lincoln declared to Horace Greeley the line which he had laid down for his own guidance : ' ' 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 ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - 1895 - 434 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; atad if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | 1896 - 800 pages
...186z, tells what was true of him in this respect from the first day to the last of his term of office : 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 — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1896 - 386 pages
...President's scruples seem to have been overcome by the logic of the situation. " My object," he wrote, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it." He soon... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1896 - 94 pages
...with them. My paramount object 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 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1860 - 312 pages
...with them. My paramount object 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 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 696 pages
...letter, he wrote (August 22, 1862): "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Richard Meade Bache - 1897 - 698 pages
...defined by him in a letter to Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune, in which he had said : — " 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 ; if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
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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... 
