 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...pursuing, as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the constitution. The sooner...be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union it was. * * * If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union it was. • * * If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to nine the Union,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1884 - 312 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " 'If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy LINCOLN AS A UNION SAVEK. 187 slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885 - 404 pages
...epigrammatic sentences his policy and purpose at that time. "I would," he said, "save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the constitution....sooner the national authority can be restored, the sooner the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - New York (State) - 1885 - 1128 pages
...through the Tribune an immediate Emancipation Proclamation. Said Lincoln, "I would save the Union ; if there be those who would not save the 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... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, i do not agree with them. if there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, i do not agree with them. Mv paramount object is to save tke Union, and not either... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Michigan - 1885 - 396 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the 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... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " If there be those who would not save the 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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " If there be those who would not save the 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... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner...the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was."2 If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery,... | |
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seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union... 
