 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...impression, and was particularly disrelished by antislavery men. Saying that his paramount object was to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery, he added the famous epigrammatic utterance already quoted in these pages, and which was so often repeated,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1878 - 656 pages
...knows. While history lives it will reecho the sad, solemn, pathetic assurance he gave to Mr. Greeley : " 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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1879 - 92 pages
...Republican newspapers denounced Mr. Lincoln for remissness and inaction. He replied in his defence, " 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 if... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1879 - 36 pages
...slavery" was " an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union." President Lincoln in his reply said: — "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . . What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1879 - 380 pages
...five million bales of cotton into money." THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR. 30. President Lincoln had 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... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 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 ; and... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 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 to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and, if I... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 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 to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and, if I... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 670 pages
...proof of Lincoln's fatalism is his letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862. In it he writes :— " 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;... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - Presidents - 1881 - 430 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 ; and... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
