 | Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. îfy paramount object is to save the Union ami nut 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, 1 would do it... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - United States - 1871 - 276 pages
...Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it If I could save it by freeing all ihe slaves I would do it ; and if... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...war, the same President said : ' My paramount object in this struggle 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;... | |
 | James Parton - 1872 - 592 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle it 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;... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1872 - 772 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in the straggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or 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... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and 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;... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and 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... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - Journalists - 1873 - 744 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle 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... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 622 pages
...great danger ; not to touch slavery unless her safety demanded it. He said : — " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or 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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 920 pages
...Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I ri'tiM save the Union without freeing any slave, I »onld do it; if I could save it by freeing all... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
