 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 slave 1 would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 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...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... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach - 1893 - 778 pages
...to be necessary in order to save the Union. Replying to the suggestions made he said, Aug. 22, 1862: "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... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 slave 1 would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 Uuion without freeing any slave 1 would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 pages
...think he was meditating general emancipation until he issued his preliminary proclamation, September 22, 1862. Just a month before, exactly, he had written...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1894 - 530 pages
...save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution . . . the Union as it was. 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. If I could... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1894 - 684 pages
...question of which they persisted in seeing only one. To Horace Greeley, on 22 Aug., Mr. Lincoln 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 save 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... 
