| Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...under 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 in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.... | |
| William D. Hall - English language - 1898 - 326 pages
...not follow that any one of the malcontents could pronounce as well as the orator. — HIGGINSON. 17. If there be those who would not save the Union unless...same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. — LINCOLN. 18. When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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 in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy... | |
| Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 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 not...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.... | |
| Milton Hindus - Criticism - 180 pages
...August, 1862: I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . 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 destroy slavery.... | |
| Wilbur R. Jacobs - History - 1994 - 372 pages
...in Lincoln Park, Chicago. There are the words: If there be those who would not save the Union less they could at the same time save slavery, I do not...there be those who would not save the union unless at the same time they could destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 271. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). 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... | |
| Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...under 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 in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.... | |
| W. E. B. Du Bois - History - 1998 - 772 pages
...in August, 1862, his editorial, "Prayer of Twenty Millions," which drew Lincoln's well-known reply: "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 slavery.... | |
| George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...Preliminary Proclamation — a statement that angers some of his antislavery critics down to our day): not agree with them. If there be those who would not...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... | |
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