 | Russell B. Goodman - Philosophy - 2005 - 398 pages
...reply to Horace Greeley's public attack is a classic example of the accomplished pragmatist at work: "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;... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...the policy I 'seem to be pursuing' as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt," he began. "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... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - Political Science - 2005 - 360 pages
...the American polity" (Riley 1999, 19). Lincoln's goal, for instance, was preservation of the Union. "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... | |
 | Bijian Zheng - Political Science - 2006 - 102 pages
...the Union." I also quoted from his famous letter written in August 1862, where he further stressed: 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 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;... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 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; and... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 pages
...quote, from a letter to newsman Horace Greeley, Lincoln explains that Union, not abolition, is his goal: 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 feeing all the slaves I would do it; and... | |
 | Will Morrisey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 294 pages
...prevail.54 Self-Government and the American Union In a famous 1862 letter to Horace Greeley, Lincoln wrote, "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... | |
 | Alistair Kee - Religion - 2006 - 242 pages
...has no basis in history. James Cone in his first book on Black theology quotes the Great Emancipator. My 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 some and leaving others alone,... | |
 | James F. Simon - History - 2006 - 337 pages
...Lincoln had not emancipated the slaves, as required by the Second Confiscation Act, Lincoln replied: "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... | |
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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. 
