| Gustav Stickley - Architecture, Domestic - 1905 - 958 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 412 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... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...Tribune, who criticised him for failure to emancipate the slaves, he said : " 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 leaving... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 606 pages
...pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. . . . 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... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 626 pages
...pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. . . . 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... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 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... | |
| George Spring Merriam - African Americans - 1906 - 482 pages
...Constitution. . . . 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... | |
| 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."... | |
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