 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 pages
...return to the Union.' Mr. Lincoln, in his letter to Horace Greely, of the 22nd August, 1861, said — ' 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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 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, —... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 pages
...THIRD TEAK OF THE WAR. 30. President Lincoln had said : " 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 slaves, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; _,... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I <lr> not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave / would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to nine the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave / would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the (laves I would do it; and... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to nave the Union, and in not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave / would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the ilaves I would do it; and... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 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, —... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...was," erased, with some reluctance, by not save the Union unless they could at the same time CHAP.VIII. save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be...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;... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - English language - 1890 - 530 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 —... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 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 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. 
