 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object io 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... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...draft niggers as white men, etc. etc. could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...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...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 —... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...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...destroy slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I woulil do it; and if I could вате it by freeing all Hie slaves, I would do... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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...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 —... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...brevity, in a letter to Horace Greeley, written in August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " 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 —... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...who would not save the Union uniese they could at the same destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. tf I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could it by freeing all... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object ID 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... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
