If there be those who would not save the Union 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 destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount... Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History ... - Page 213by Samuel Gordon Heiskell - 1921Full view - About this book
| 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...do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was."2 If there be those who would not save the Union unless...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, 1 would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...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...do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because... | |
| 1862 - 620 pages
...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...do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...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 if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...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 if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...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...do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...with them, ily 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 ; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...slavery, I do not agre* with them. * My paramount olfject is to save the Union and not rttVr to tare 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 »Inve9» I would do it — and if I could eavo it bv freeing some... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...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 ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
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