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" 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "
Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People - Page 273
by Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 433 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...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 ;...
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...I have always supposed to be right. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause,...
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History of the American War, Volume 2

Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 470 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 freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it If I could save it by freeing some and...
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Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...

David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...letter, ' My paramount object is to save the Union, in id I would save it in the shortest way. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, 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...
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The Picture and the Men: Being Biograhical Sketches of President Lincoln and ...

Frederic Beecher Perkins - Cabinet officers - 1867 - 208 pages
...variation of assertion, of this object. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could...the Union without freeing any slaves, 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...
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The Life of Schuyler Colfax

Ambrose Yoemans Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 404 pages
...letter: " ' My paramount object is to save the Union, and I would save it in the shortest way. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, 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...
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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...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 ;...
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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...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 ;...
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The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes

James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 266 pages
...August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley: "My paramount object is to save the Union, and 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;...
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Annual Meeting of the Livingston County Historical Society, Volumes 1-15

Livingston County (N.Y.) - 1877 - 610 pages
...protest of Greeley, made August 9, 1862, he said : "My paramount- object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could...the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some...
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