 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...  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 215by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - American letters - 1908 - 410 pages
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | William Morris Stewart - History - 1908 - 372 pages
...object is to save the Union and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — and if I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | L. Brent Vaughan - World history - 1908 - 724 pages
...is to save the Union, ami not cither to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. And if I could save...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
..."is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — - and if I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 pages
...to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Charles Washington Moores - Presidents - 1909 - 144 pages
...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...leaving others alone, I would also do that. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty ; and I intend no modification of... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1909 - 38 pages
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because I believe it... | |
 | Education - 1909 - 720 pages
...to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Richard Watson Gilder - 1909 - 126 pages
...stated his position and explained his policy with absolute lucidity. "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." Like statements were made to others in formal and informal utterances,... | |
 | Emory Speer - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 298 pages
...is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. And if I could save...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
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