 | James Harrison Cathey - 1899 - 238 pages
...as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner...save the 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... | |
 | Waldo Warder Braden - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 278 pages
...would not save the union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the 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... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it...same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.... | |
 | Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | C. Vann Woodward - History - 1997 - 385 pages
...Lincoln announced this on many occasions in the most solemn tones. "I would save the Union," he insisted; "I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution....the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' ... My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - History - 1998 - 772 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...— a statement that angers some of his antislavery critics down to our day): not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | Andrew Linklater - International relations - 2000 - 384 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
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seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union... 
