| Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 224 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' . . . 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... | |
| Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...Union, at least in his official capacity as president. "My paramount object in this struggle," he wrote, "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; and... | |
| T. Thomas Fortune - Social Science - 2007 - 257 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union 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... | |
| James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
...fifteen of the eighteen books, is his letter of August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley's 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 slaves, I would do it;... | |
| Robert H. Ferrell - History - 2007 - 350 pages
...emphatic. "Now is the time" To underline his argument, he told Horace Greeley in 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 slaves I would do it; and... | |
| Patrick J. Buchanan - Political Science - 2007 - 316 pages
...Fremont should not have dragged the negro into it."13 As he wrote Horace Greeley with raw honesty, 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... | |
| David J. Eicher - History - 2007 - 376 pages
...his paper 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;... | |
| Miodrag A. Jovanović - Federal government - 2007 - 257 pages
...himself with respect to slavery: [m]y paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it 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 freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if... | |
| Ricky L. Jones - Social Science - 2010 - 160 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... | |
| Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 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... | |
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