 | 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 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... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...expounded his principles of political expediency in a way that could be 'understanded of the people.' '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, I... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...government, we copy these sentences from the President's letter to Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...without 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... | |
 | 1862 - 620 pages
...22nd had not then appeared. In his letter to Horace Greely of the 22nd of August last he said : — ' If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...government, we copy these sentences from the President's letter to Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and i? not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union, unless...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them, ily paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy... | |
 | Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be ' the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...Union as it was. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...was. If there be those who would not Bare the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, 1 do not agree with them. If there be those who would...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unle>? they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree' with them. If there be those...save the Union unless they could at the same time d'Slruy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object io this struggle it to save the Union,... | |
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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 in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. 
