 | Frank Everson Vandiver - Political Science - 2005 - 156 pages
...August 1862: "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 some and leaving others alone I would also do that.'" He recognized that the... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 944 pages
...began. "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; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - Political Science - 2005 - 351 pages
...Union. "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; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Barbara Weisberg - Religion - 2009 - 336 pages
...replied, "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; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - Pragmatism - 2005 - 382 pages
...at work: "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; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Christopher Heath Wellman - Philosophy - 2005
...explained: [M]y 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; and if I could save the Union by freeing some... | |
 | Bijian Zheng - Political Science - 2006 - 88 pages
...stressed: 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; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 196 pages
...unless they could at the same Mine 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 eould save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - History - 2005 - 128 pages
...a letter to Horace Greeley, he made clear how little he cared about slaves. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the union and is not either to save or destroy slavery," wrote Lincoln. "If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it" (186). Despite... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - History - 2005 - 376 pages
...Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leave the others alone, I would also do that."48 Lincoln hoped that once the Union was restored under... | |
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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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
