 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 664 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;... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 704 pages
...could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not gave 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 the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...emancipation proclamation, he did not reveal it in his public letter to Greeley. He wrote in part: "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 some and leaving others alone,... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - History - 1998 - 772 pages
...in August, 1862, his editorial, "Prayer of Twenty Millions," which drew Lincoln's well-known reply: "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 also do... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...Preliminary Proclamation — a statement that angers some of his antislavery critics down to our day): not agree with them. If there be those who would 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... | |
 | Russell Lowell Riley, Russell Lynn Riley - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 404 pages
...slavery where it already existed. On this subject he later wrote to the abolitionist Horace Greeley, 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... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...Works . , . (i9Si) vol. 4 1 1 My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union ... If 1 could save the Union without freeing any slave, 1 would do it; and if 1 could save it by freeing all the slaves, 1 would do it; and if 1 could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Andrew Linklater - International relations - 2000 - 384 pages
...Utopian moralists, is timeless in its eloquent wisdom. "If there be those," he wrote on August 22, 1862, who would not save the Union unless they could at...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;... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...for not fully supporting emancipation.47 Lincoln replied with a letter to Greeley three days later: 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... | |
 | Stanley A. Renshon - Political Science - 2001 - 422 pages
...Greeley, slavery was an issue of importance to him only insofar as it bore on this single, simple matter: 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. 
