 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 470 pages
...could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it If I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. "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 it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. "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 it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it— and... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " 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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...wished them fully to understand his motives. He said : " 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 it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...wished them fully to understand his motives. He said : " 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 it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not eithw to save or destroy slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; .and... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - Cabinet officers - 1867 - 208 pages
...this object. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...slaves, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do * it by freeing sflme and leaving others alone,... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...to save ject to save the or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the...and leaving others alone, I would also do that." " I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty; and I intend no modification of... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...save the or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union. B ^ " • Union without freeing any slave,! would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the...and leaving others alone, I would also do that." " I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty; and I intend no modification of... | |
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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... 
