 If there be those who would not save the Union 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. My paramount...  The North American Review - Page 4251880Full view - About this book
 | Richard Wormser - History - 2004 - 238 pages
...to end slavery early in the war: "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;... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...to an editorial by Horace Greeley: 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... | |
 | Michael Lee Lanning - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 344 pages
...clarified his position, stating, "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... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - History - 2004 - 348 pages
...Lincoln replied in a published letter: "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... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...Even as the war raged, he declared, "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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...saving the Union. There were those, for instance, who were more in love with slavery than the Union, "those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery." And then there were those who put the destruction of slavery on a higher pedestal than... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...there were those who put the destruction of slavery on a higher pedestal than saving the Union, "those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery." What these partisans shared was a common indifference to the salvation of the Union,... | |
 | Derrick Bell - Law - 2004 - 248 pages
...Union 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. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
 | R. C. Smedley - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 486 pages
...as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time gave Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...leave anyone in doubt," he began. "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... | |
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