 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...  The North American Review - Page 4251880Full view - About this book
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1878 - 656 pages
...knows. While history lives it will reecho the sad, solemn, pathetic assurance he gave to Mr. Greeley : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could save... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1879 - 36 pages
...slavery" was " an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union." President Lincoln in his reply said: — "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . . What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1879 - 92 pages
...Republican newspapers denounced Mr. Lincoln for remissness and inaction. He replied in his defence, " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union, without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 pages
...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 object is to save the Union, and not either... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 pages
...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 object is to save the union, and not either... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 264 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 they could at the same time ^^rgyskwery^Ldca. not agre^jyjthjyhem^My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,and... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1881 - 674 pages
...spirits. They began to talk of giving freedom to the slave as well as of the restoration of the Union. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery," wrote President Lincoln to Horace Grecloy, August 22d, 1862, reflecting doubtless... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 670 pages
...proof of Lincoln's fatalism is his letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862. In it he writes :— " My paramount object is to save the Union, and 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... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 270 pages
...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 they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - Presidents - 1881 - 430 pages
...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 object is to save the union, and not either... | |
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