 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...for not fully supporting emancipation.47 Lincoln replied with a letter to Greeley three days later: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.48 Exactly one month prior to this letter, Lincoln had submitted a draft... | |
 | Ron Ramdin - History - 2000 - 406 pages
...position: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union. ... If l could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that ... I have stated my purpose according to my views of official duty and... | |
 | James W. Clarke - Law - 362 pages
...country: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union.... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save...do about slavery and the colored race, I do because it helps save the Union.21 A majority in Congress agreed, seeing themselves and those they represented... | |
 | Louis S. Gerteis - History - 2001 - 432 pages
...... 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."1 When Lincoln wrote these words, he had already decided on an emancipation... | |
 | David Paterson, Susan Willoughby, Doug Willoughby - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...the slaves. He virtually admitted this, late in 1862, when he said: If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. In fact, he did the latter, since only the slaves in rebel states were... | |
 | Nathan W. Schlueter - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 212 pages
...A. Knopf, 1948), 169. 50. As he wrote in a letter to Horace Greeley in 1862: "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone 1 would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Peder Jones, Jay Farness - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 478 pages
...still an accurate reflection of the source's main ideas. 1 . My paramount object in [the Civil War] is to save the Union, and is not either to save or...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty;... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...He wrote: "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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." Easler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Lincoln, 5:388. As far as it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 456 pages
...Lincoln replied: "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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone 1 would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Randall G. Holcombe - Business & Economics - 2002 - 352 pages
...Proclamation: "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."6 The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, gave the... | |
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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... 
