 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...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3631872Full view - About this book
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...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...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 leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...it to Mte tlie Union, and not either to sate or dcttroy Slirery. " If I could save the Union without | + all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...Greeley, written in August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...it — and if I could save it by freeing some and letting others alone, I would also do that." In September, he published a proclamation, distinctly... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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...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 leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...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...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 leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...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...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 leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...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...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 leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...to save the Union, and not either to iavt or to dettroy tlavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all tho slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...wished them fully to understand his motives. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would do it." He vras not yet quite prepared to issue a proclamation fraught with such momentous... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...wished them fully to understand his motives. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...do it, and if I could save it by freeing some, and leading others alone. I would do it." He was not yet quite prepared to issue a proclamation fraught... | |
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