 | Randall G. Holcombe - Business & Economics - 2002 - 352 pages
...his Emancipation Proclamation: "My paramount objective 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... | |
 | David Burchell, Andrew Leigh - Political Science - 2002 - 208 pages
...for the demands of being president: My paramount duty 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; if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if... | |
 | Demetrius Lynn Eudell - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...to larger political objectives: "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;... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...larger number of opponents. He wrote: "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... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...Campaigns (1985). PART 3 Wartime Politics 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... | |
 | Jerrold M. Packard - History - 2002 - 316 pages
...themselves of membership in the United States. "My paramount objective in this struggle," he wrote, "is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." He made clear, however, that this represented his official view and equally clear that his persona/... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...device of the public letter, in this instance having the dignity of a state paper, Lincoln answered, "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;... | |
 | Max Shachtman - Social Science - 2003 - 188 pages
...struggle is to save the Union," he wrote to Horace Greeley in New York on August 22, 1862, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing some and... | |
 | Paul A. Cohen - History - 2003 - 242 pages
...object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "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." The People Shall Judge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2008 - 296 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle 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; and if I could do it freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
