 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 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 in this struggle is to saz>e the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 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. If there be those who wouM not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 422 pages
...To this the President responded in that evermemorable reply of August 22, in which he said: If Acre be those who would not save the Union unless they...destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount qbject is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - Law - 1895 - 434 pages
...upon which no government can possibly endure." — Message to Congress, July, 1861. Union and Slavery. "If there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 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 Anderson Dana - United States - 1896 - 94 pages
...(vol. vi, p. 152), the main part of his most admirable letter of August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley : If there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 752 pages
...remembered that it was not undertaken on his account. Before the struggle began Mr. Lincoln said: "If 615 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 destroy or to save slavery." And the Northern press emphasized... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 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...same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either save or destroy slavery." Lincoln wrote to... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 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...same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.... | |
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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... 
