 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 422 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount qbject 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, —... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1896 - 94 pages
...(vol. vi, p. 152), the main part of his most admirable letter of August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley : 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 ;... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 pages
...addressed him by Horace Greeley, in part as follows: 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; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...The 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 slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...The 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 slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 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;... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1899 - 588 pages
...progress in the nineteenth century ?"' Lincoln's letter of August 22,1862, to Horace Greeley, declared: " 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;... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1899 - 614 pages
...that time its slaves were not to be set at liberty by the final proclamation. The President 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 it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
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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. 
