 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 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...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... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - Allergy - 1892 - 372 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Durham - Social Science - 1892 - 366 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, writing on August 22, 1862, 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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Durham - Social Science - 1892 - 364 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, writing on August 22, 1862, 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... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 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 save the Union without freeing any slave 1 would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...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 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 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...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 Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 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 save the Union without freeing any slave 1 would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 374 pages
...the 226. of Au-• gust, he had said to Mr. Greeley : " 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... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach - 1893 - 778 pages
...Replying to the suggestions made he said, Aug. 22, 1862: "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... | |
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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... 
