 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...  Complete Works - Page xiiiby Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Seward - 1891 - 640 pages
...as might best conduce to that end. As he himself tersely stated his position: " My paramount object is to save the Union; and not either to save or to...Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if T could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing some and... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, mid not either to seme or t» d«»trcy slavery. "., If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if 1 could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 346 pages
...should adhere. The President said : 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 ;... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - Belgium - 1892 - 472 pages
...on August 22, 1862, he said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...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... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1892 - 858 pages
...of the Union. " My paramount object in this struggle," were his memorable words to Horace Greeley, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery." It was with a single eye to that paramount object that he selected his army commanders, irrespectively... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach - 1893 - 778 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Bill Arp - Georgia - 1893 - 242 pages
...declaring it void, and in his letter to Horace Greeley, in August, 1862, he 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 do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...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 not either to save or...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...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 not either to save or to...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to saz>e the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery....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... | |
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