| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 —... | |
| 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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