 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. " If I could save the Union without... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 pages
...of cotton into money." THIRD TEAK OF THE WAR. 30. President Lincoln had said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to...destroy slavery. If I 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 ; _,... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union it was. • * * If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same...with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to nine the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union it was. * * * If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I <lr> not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...retained slavery in the South if he could have retained the Slave States. His paramount object was to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. But as the tide of war rolled on, some great measure was required. On January r, 1863, a proclamation... | |
 | Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1884 - 312 pages
...they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " 'If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy LINCOLN AS A UNION SAVEK. 187 slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Michigan - 1885 - 396 pages
...unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...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... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - New York (State) - 1885 - 1128 pages
...immediate Emancipation Proclamation. Said Lincoln, "I would save the Union ; if there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." Both Fillmore and Lincoln made the... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...unless they could at the same time save slavery, i do not agree with them. if there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, i do not agree with them. Mv paramount object is to save tke Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. if i could save... | |
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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 if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
