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" 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... "
Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays Honoring Robert H. Ferrell - Page 22
by Robert H. Ferrell - 2007 - 350 pages
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Annual Register, Volume 111

Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe...
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...subordinate to this end and aim. " My paramount object is to save tlie Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save 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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116

1862 - 620 pages
...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 save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of ..., Volume 104

Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...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 save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because I believe it...
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The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History ...

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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe...
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The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion

Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...ofgrrt is to save the Vhion and not either to gave or destroy tlarfry. If T could save tho Union without alono, I would also do tliat. What I do about nlavcry and the colored rnce, I do because I believe...
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure

John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. " What I do about slavery or the colored race, I do because I believe...
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The Annual Register

History - 1870 - 696 pages
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe...
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Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 730 pages
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe...
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Commentaries Upon International Law, Volume 1

Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...President said : ' 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe...
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