| James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. 2 " We wait beneath the furnace blast The pangs of transformation... | |
| Frederic Bancroft - 1899 - 588 pages
...declared: " 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... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
...with them. 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 doit; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Joseph Warren Keifer - History - 1900 - 386 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." ' But Abraham Lincoln... | |
| Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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 all the slaves, I would do it. And if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
| Will Thomas Hale - Southern States - 1900 - 278 pages
...either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." He afterwards veered, doubtless through the instrumentality of the antislavery... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...with them. 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... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...agreewith them. Myparamount 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... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My prime 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 all of the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
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