 | John Thomas Bell - United States - 1903 - 222 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...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 leaving... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 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 do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 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... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Christianity - 1904 - 308 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... | |
 | Business - 1914 - 538 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 some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Oratory - 1904 - 508 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 25 the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 1358 pages
...them. My paramount objection 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... | |
 | Elbert William Robinson Ewing - Slavery - 1904 - 398 pages
...the war should not touch slavery. Writing in August, 1862, Lincoln said, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I ccmld save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. What I do about slavery and the colored... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Allen Rogers Benham - American letters - 1905 - 176 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... | |
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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; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could... 
