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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... "
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... - Page 250
by Horace Greeley - 1866
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Lincoln and His Cabinet: A Lecture Delivered Before the New Haven Colony ...

Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1896 - 94 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 in this struggle is to save the Union,...
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The Great American Book of Biography, Illustrious Americans: Their Lives and ...

United States - 1896 - 752 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...
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Discovery of America

Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 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 slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,...
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Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln

Waldo Warder Braden - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 278 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...
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Irving Babbitt, Literature, and the Democratic Culture

Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 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 in this struggle is to save the Union,...
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Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from ...

Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 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 in this struggle is to save the Union,...
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The Comparative Approach to American History

C. Vann Woodward - History - 1997 - 385 pages
...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 sooner...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...
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Lincoln on Lincoln

Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 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 in this struggle is to save the Union,...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography

George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...— a statement that angers some of his antislavery critics down to our day): 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 in this struggle is to save the Union,...
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W. E. B. Du Bois - History - 1998 - 772 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 in this struggle is to save the Union...
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