| Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - Journalists - 1873 - 754 pages
...the 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...save the Union unless they could at the same time sate slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 920 pages
...letter from that gentleman, gave utterance to his views as follows : " If there be those who '• I'M not save the Union unless they could at the same time...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. If I ri'tiM save... | |
| Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 pages
...futile. To this the President responded in that evermemorable dispatch of August 22, in which he said : If there be those who would not save the union unless...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. If I could save... | |
| North American review - 1880 - 632 pages
...defined "his policy with respect to slavery" to be, "to save the Union. If there be those," he added, " who would not save the Union unless they could at...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... | |
| North American review - 1880 - 614 pages
...denned "his policy with respect to slavery" to be, "to save the Union. If there be those," he added, " who would not save the Union unless they could at...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... | |
| John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1873 - 452 pages
...August 22, 1862 : " 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...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. " If I could... | |
| Russell H. Conwell - Presidents - 1881 - 430 pages
...futile. To this the President responded in that evermemorable dispatch of August 22, in which he said : If there be those who would not save the union unless...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. If I could save... | |
| Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 270 pages
..." Broken eggs can never be mended, and the longer the breaking proceeds the more will be broken."] If there be those who would not save the Union, unless...same time destroy 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... | |
| George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 pages
...the 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...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. " If I could... | |
| James Taylor - 1882 - 284 pages
...return to the Union.' Mr. Lincoln, in his letter to Horace Greely, of the 22nd August, 1861, said — ' If there be those who would not save the Union, unless...same time destroy 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... | |
| |