 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 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 ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1901 - 476 pages
...editorial written by Horace Greeley, the President wrote : "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; and... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 770 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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...would save the Union," he said, frankly. " I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. 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;... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - History, Modern - 1905 - 934 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be to '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 ;... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 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;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 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;... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - Congregational churches - 1903 - 528 pages
...1862, Mr. Lincoln had written to Mr. Greeley that ever memorable letter in which he declared that his paramount object in this struggle " is to save the...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 skves, I would do it... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 506 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; and... | |
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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. 
