 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...began. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Barbara Weisberg - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 338 pages
...replied, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...they could at the same Mine 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. If I eould save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...at the same time distroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle w to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy...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... | |
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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... 
