 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - President - 1901 - 550 pages
...had written to the editor of the New York Tribune : "My paramount object is to save the union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." HE SAW THE PURPOSES OF GOD. The difference in his thought and purpose... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My prime object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either...without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all of the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My prime object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either...without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all of the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | William Hannibal Thomas - African Americans - 1901 - 476 pages
...continuance in the selfishness of man. " My paramount object," said he, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery; if I could...without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Yet he was mindful to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...with them. 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 '° us could save it by freeing some... | |
 | Somerville (Mass.) - 1901 - 47 pages
...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, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. What I do for slavery and the colored race I do because I believe it helps to save the union, and what... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 788 pages
...quickly seizing it and firmly holding it until his grip relaxed in death. " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery," was his decisive answer to the impatient Greeley. And in saving the Union he saved for his country... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...with them. 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...with them. 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... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - History, Modern - 1905 - 934 pages
...with them. 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... | |
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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. 
