 | Charles M. Hubbard - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 270 pages
...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, and is not either to...without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2008 - 296 pages
...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...freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could do it freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone,... | |
 | James Trager - Reference - 2010 - 4679 pages
...Lincoln August 22 in a letter to Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune, "and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."... | |
 | Arnie Bernstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 308 pages
...struggle is to save the Union," he wrote in August 1862 to Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, "and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If...without freeing any slave, I would do it] and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...having the dignity of a state paper, Lincoln answered, "My paramount object is to save the Union and not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could...without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Elaine Brown - Social Science - 2003 - 404 pages
...his position: "Dear Sir ... I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to...destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it." 51 [ 9 ] Post-Emancipation Fight for Freedom We have pioneered civilizatlan... | |
 | Paul A. Cohen - History - 2003 - 242 pages
...98-9,171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "is to save the Union and is not either to save or...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it." The People Shall Judge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,... | |
 | Paul A. Cohen - China - 2003 - 242 pages
...171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "/s to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it." The People Shall ludge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is 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 save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could... 
