 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy...slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Rev. Henry Mason Baum - 1882 - 924 pages
...suspicion of disunionism. " My paramount object," he writes, " is to save the Union and not to either save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union...slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. " If I could save the Union without...slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - America - 1882 - 590 pages
...system, ho would do it with gladdened heart. Meanwhile he said, " If I could save tho Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could Bave it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 994 pages
...Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the union, and not either to save or destroy...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 1 believe it... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Reconstruction - 1884 - 402 pages
...rights of man. In his reply Mr. Lincoln said: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the...freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that." These words served as fresh fuel to the fires of popular discontent, and they were responded... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...Lincoln to lead him to confiscate slaves and declare emancipation, he wrote : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." " What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy Slavery. 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... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - New York (State) - 1884 - 670 pages
...object," said the President, in August, 1862, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving 1 Lester's Life of... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...reply is here subjoined : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or dest:oy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing...slave I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
