 | 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... | |
 | 1862 - 620 pages
...September 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...is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could... | |
 | 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 Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could... | |
 | 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 - 518 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...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 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...is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 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...is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could... | |
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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. 
