| 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...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 save... | |
| Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...Constitution. The 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...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 save... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...constitution. The 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 destroy slavery, I do not agree with them, ily paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be—the Union as it was. If there be those who...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 - 518 pages
...Constitution. The 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...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... | |
| Union League of Philadelphia - African American soldiers - 1864 - 22 pages
...Lincoln wrote to those who urged him to convert the war for the Union into a war against slavery — " If there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
| 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... | |
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