 | Charles Reemelin - 1881 - 670 pages
...proof of Lincoln's fatalism is his letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862. In it he writes :— " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...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... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1881 - 430 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...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... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - 1881 - 270 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 <7//the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the sam : 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. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 640 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 ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 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 — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —and... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 998 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...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... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - 1883 - 474 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union...without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if 1 could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1885 - 482 pages
...could at the same time destroy slavery, i do not agree with them. Mv paramount object is to save tke Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery....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... | |
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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... 
