 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
..." My paramount object in this struggle," as he declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "is 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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. 2 " We wait... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
..." My paramount object in this struggle," as he declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "is 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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. * " We wait... | |
 | James Harrison Cathey - 1899 - 238 pages
...same time destroy slavery, 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 freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1899 - 642 pages
...final proclamation. The President said : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without ' sl would do it; and if I could "^ u fay freeins a" the sUv do it f T > I could save it by freeing... | |
 | George Augustus Armes - New York (State) - 1900 - 830 pages
...The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be ' the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1900 - 594 pages
...the nineteenth century ?" ' Lincoln's letter of August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley, declared : £_My paramount object in. this struggle is to save the...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... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agreewith them. Myparamount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and...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 ;... | |
 | James Harrison Cathey - 1899 - 382 pages
...same time destroy slavery, 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 freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
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I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
