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" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. "
Southern Historical Society Papers - Page 218
1889
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 8; Volume 232

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...
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The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth ...

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;...
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Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1

John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 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 ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it...
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Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1

John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 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 ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;...
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The Life of Horace Greeley: Founder of the New York Tribune, with Extended ...

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...
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The History of Our Country from Its Discovery by Columbus to the Celebration ...

Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 624 pages
...her out from her great danger ; not to touch slavery unless her safety demanded it. He said : — " 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...
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The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 15

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 920 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 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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The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes

James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 266 pages
...the struggle for the Nation's life. As late as August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley: "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; and if I could...
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Annual Meeting of the Livingston County Historical Society, Volumes 1-15

Livingston County (N.Y.) - 1877 - 610 pages
...public opinion pushed him on. To the importunate protest of Greeley, made August 9, 1862, he said : "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 slaves, I would do it ; if I could...
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Memoir of James Haughton. With Extracts from His Private and Published Letters

Samuel Haughton - 1877 - 364 pages
..." President Lincoln, in a letter to Horace Greeley, writes : ' My paramount object in the struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.' " "Always excepting the few Abolitionists. For four years, masses of men of the same race were banded...
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