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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 is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. "
The Lincoln Memorial: Album-immortelles: Original Life Pictures, with ... - Page 222
by Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 543 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...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...
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...question of slav ery was wholly subordinate to this end and aim. " My paramount object is to save tlie Union, and 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, and...
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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 Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116

1862 - 620 pages
...do not agree with them. 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. If I could save...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of ..., Volume 104

Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...do not agree with them. 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. If I could save...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...do not agree with them. 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...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...
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Abraham Lincoln

Union League of Philadelphia - African American soldiers - 1864 - 22 pages
...agree with them. " 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. "...Union,* and not either to save or destroy slavery." • In these terse sentences are embodied the sentiment which ani" mates the great mass of the American...
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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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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 9

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 704 pages
...brevity, in a letter to Horace Greeley, written in August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy...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,...
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