 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...  Annual Register - Page 295edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...freeing any slave 1 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 others...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear I forbear because... | |
 | Rev. W. D. Simonds - United States - 1894 - 246 pages
...subordinated Liberty to Union. In August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley as follows: — - - M y paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would -also do that." These words — meaning nothing more nor less than that Union must take... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 pages
...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 save the Union without...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...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...coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...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...coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." I continued in the same letter as follows : " What I do about slavery... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 410 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." I continued in the same letter as follows: "What I do about slavery and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 422 pages
...save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - Law - 1895 - 434 pages
...freeing any slave, I would do it; atad 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...from Lincoln to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, 22 August 1862 If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. • Source D: Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government... | |
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