 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - New York (State) - 1885 - 1128 pages
...through the Tribune an immediate Emancipation Proclamation. Said Lincoln, "I would save the Union ; if there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...Constitution. " The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — the Union as it was. " If there be those who would not...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 could save the Union without... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 pages
...Constitution. " The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — the Union as it was. " If there be those who would not...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — the Union as it was. If there be those who would not save...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 could save the Union, without... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - English language - 1890 - 530 pages
...to be right. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — the Union as it was. If there be those who would not save...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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...was," erased, with some reluctance, by not save the Union unless they could at the same time CHAP.VIII. save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be...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 to destroy slavery. If I could... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 pages
...Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be " the Union as it was. " If there be those who would not...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 to destroy slavery. If I could... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the sooner the Union will be — the Union as it was. If there be those who would not save...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 could save the Union without freeing... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will he — the Union as it was. If there be those who would not save...time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there he those who would not save the Union unless thev could at tts same time destroy slavery, I do not... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...national anthority can be restored the nearer the Union will be .the Union as it was.' If there he those who would not save the Union unless they could...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... | |
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If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount... 
