 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...  Abraham Lincoln - Page 337by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...said, " 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...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 save it by freeing some and leaving others...What I do about Slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...freeing any slave, 1 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 others...that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, 1 do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, 1 forbear because 1 do not... | |
 | 1862 - 620 pages
...destroy 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it will help to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it will help to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not... | |
 | Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...destroy 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because I believe it helps to save this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...save it by freeing all .the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about Slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I 'forbear because I do not believe... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object. is to savetke Union, and not either to tave or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
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