 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...  Lincoln Reshapes the Presidency - Page 81edited by - 2003 - 236 pagesLimited preview - 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 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... | |
 | 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
...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 object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...under the constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' If there be those who would...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,... | |
 | Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...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 object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be—the Union as it was. If there be those who would not save...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...the Constitution. " The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be , $ P sume time save Slavery, I do not agree with them; " If there be those who would not save the Union... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...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 object is to save the Union, and not either... | |
 | Union League of Philadelphia - African American soldiers - 1864 - 22 pages
...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 object is to save the Union,* and not either... | |
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