 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...of Twenty Millions," questioning the President's policy on slavery. Lincoln had replied by writing, "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by... | |
 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 pages
...Mr. Lincoln penned the following which was, in turn, published in the New York Tribune on August 25: I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest...authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be to "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. 495 I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...dictatorial tone, I waive it, in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...disappointed and deeply pained" by the President's policy "with regard to the slaves of the Rebels," he wrote: "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution . . . My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy... | |
 | Michel Rosenfeld - History - 1994 - 452 pages
...Publishing Co. 1969) (1849). 66 See 2 LINCOLN, supra note 53, at 215-24. 67 See id. at 357-58; for example, "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing... | |
 | Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 pages
...Lincoln's calm reply to Horace Greeley's reproachful editorial in The New York Tribune in August, 1862: I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery,... | |
 | C. Vann Woodward - History - 1997 - 385 pages
...Lincoln announced this on many occasions in the most solemn tones. "I would save the Union," he insisted; "I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution....the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' ... My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy... | |
 | David A. J. Richards - Law - 1998 - 545 pages
...1989), 2: 215-24. 5. See Lincoln to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862, in Speeches and Writings, 2:357-58. "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 pages
...to free the slaves. Lincoln's reply was designed to leave no one in any doubt about his objective. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery,... | |
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I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say,... 
