 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Union League of Philadelphia - African American soldiers - 1864 - 22 pages
...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." • In these terse sentences are embodied the sentiment which ani" mates the great... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...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. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...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. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...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. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...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. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I woulil do it; and if I could... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...draft niggers as white men, etc. etc. 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. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...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. " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save... | |
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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... 
