 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885 - 404 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... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - New York (State) - 1885 - 1128 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." Both Fillmore and Lincoln made the humanities of the slavery question wholly subordinate to the national... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...could at the same time destroy slavery, i do not agree with them. Mv paramount object is to save tke 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - United States - 1885 - 1136 pages
...positively : " I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way, under the Constitution. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | New Hampshire - Concord (N.H.) - 1886 - 140 pages
...save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the constitution . . . the Union as it was. 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 do it by freeing all the i slaves, I would do it. If I... | |
 | Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...motive of the struggle between North and South. Mr. Lincoln said, " My paramount object in the struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or ^destroy slavery. If I could LINCOLN'S TWO DIFFICULTIES. li\. "What? No Monty I t\o Men .'" save the Union without freeing any slave... | |
 | Willis C. Humphrey - United States - 1886 - 720 pages
...intention to interfere with slavery;" and in August, 1862, he said, in a letter to Horace Greeley, "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." As a war measure, the President was finally compelled to do the act, giving the South, however, one... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...EXECUTION OF THE CONFISCATION ACT" DEMANDED — MR. LINCOLN'S FAMOUS REPLY —HIS "PARAMOUNT OBJECT, TO SAVE THE UNION, AND NOT EITHER TO SAVE OR DESTROY SLAVERY " — VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE OF A RELIGIOUS DEPUTATION FROM CHICAGO — MEMORIAL ASKING FOR IMMEDIATE... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...the " Prayer of Twenty Millions," to which President Lincoln replied, August 22, 1862. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If i could... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 pages
...prevent, the restoration of the Union. In his letter to Mr. Greeley, on the 2ad of August, 1862, he said : "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 ; and if I could save it by freeing some... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
