My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it... Complete Works - Page xiiiby Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...civil war, the same President said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is 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 ;... | |
| American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...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...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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 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...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... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...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 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 save it by freeing some and letting others alone,... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 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...slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I conld do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...understand his motives. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or 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 save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 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...slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I conld do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...understand his motives. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or 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 save it by freeing some, and leading others alone. I... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 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 slave, I would do it; if 1 could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and... | |
| Frederic Beecher Perkins - Cabinet officers - 1867 - 208 pages
...statement in every possible 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 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 —... | |
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