 | Guy Carleton Lee - History - 1903 - 490 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; and... | |
 | Business - 1914 - 538 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 some and leaving others alone,... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Christianity - 1904 - 308 pages
...was never more clearly stated than in Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley : " I would save the Union. 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;... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Oratory - 1904 - 508 pages
...could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save 20 the Union unless they could at the same time destroy...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 25 the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1358 pages
...unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount objection 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;... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1904 - 584 pages
...month, which followed the escape of the Alabama, Mr. Lincoln himself declared, ' My paramount object is to save the Union, and is not either to save or...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 436 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;... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1905 - 690 pages
..."I would save the Union," he said; "I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . 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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 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... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 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;... | |
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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. 
