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" 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... "
Lincoln's Words on Living Questions: A Collection of All the Recorded ... - Page 148
by Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 175 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 106

American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...'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 would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and...
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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 would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116

1862 - 620 pages
...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 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 Christian Examiner, Volume 73

Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...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 save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it ; and...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 73

Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...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 do it; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it ; and...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of ..., Volume 104

Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...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 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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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object io this struggle it 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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln

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 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 —...
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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 9

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 704 pages
...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...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...
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History of the American War, Volume 2

Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 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...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 leaving others alone, I would...
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