 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...editor two days later. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union," Lincoln wrote, "and is not either to save or to 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;... | |
 | Robert Cowley - History - 2002 - 452 pages
...nation in a masterfully phrased open letter to Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune: 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 158 slaves I would do it;... | |
 | Eugene C. Tidball - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 594 pages
...dictatorial tone, and in response produced one of his most memorable public statements. In part, he said, "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 the Union by freeing some and leaving others alone... | |
 | Wilbert L. Jenkins - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...Greeley, the New York newspaper editor, Lincoln reiterated his position. As he passionately explained, 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; and... | |
 | Nathan W. Schlueter - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 212 pages
...A. Knopf, 1948), 169. 50. As he wrote in a letter to Horace Greeley in 1862: "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...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; and... | |
 | Peder Jones, Jay Farness - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 478 pages
...still an accurate reflection of the source's main ideas. 1 . My paramount object in [the Civil War] 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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | Ethan M. Fishman - Business & Economics - 2002 - 248 pages
...the North's objective during the war: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any of the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 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; and... | |
 | Frances Harding Casstevens - History - 2003 - 344 pages
...home and abroad. Lincoln explained to newspaper editor Horace Greely that his primary objective was "to save the Union, and is not either to save or to...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 Trager - Reference - 2010 - 4679 pages
...the Union," writes President Lincoln August 22 in a letter to Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune, "and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do 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. 
