 | Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the 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... | |
 | 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
...unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...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... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...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 they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them, ily paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy... | |
 | Union League of Philadelphia - African American soldiers - 1864 - 22 pages
...they could, at the same time, save slavery, I do not agree with them. " If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they • could at the same...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 - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...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
...unless they could at the same time save slavery, 1 do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...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... | |
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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 if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
