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" My paramount object 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, and if I could do it by freeing some and... "
Addresses, Literary, Political, Legal & Miscellaneous - Page 161
by Alexander Kelly McClure - 1894
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Abraham Lincoln

Union League of Philadelphia - African American soldiers - 1864 - 22 pages
...with them. " If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery." • In these terse sentences are embodied the sentiment which ani" mates the great...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could...
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Gems from Abraham Lincoln: Born February 11 [i.e. 12], 1809, in Hardin ...

Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could...
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The Martyr's Monument: Being the Patriotism and Political Wisdom of Abraham ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could...
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History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving ...

Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...agree with them. "If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I woulil do it; and if I could...
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History of the American War, Volume 2

Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...; and we might, if necessary, as well draft niggers as white men, etc. etc. could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount...object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save...
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services

Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 236 pages
...agree with them. " If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to sare or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it —...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...agree with them. If there be those who would not suve 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 either to sate or to destroy tlavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it —...
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