 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...  Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton - Page 77by George Congdon Gorham - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...emancipate the slaves, he said : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that." After this period of suspense and anxiety came the battle of Antietam. Construing... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 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...I could save 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... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 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...I could save 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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 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...I could save 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... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 1906 - 340 pages
...doubt. . . . My paramount object in this struggle is to save {he Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save 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... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - African Americans - 1906 - 482 pages
...Constitution. . . . 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." In fact, the last was the course which he eventually took. This letter... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - Presidents - 1906 - 190 pages
...Union, I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could...I could save 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... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - History - 1907 - 432 pages
...masterpiece of virile, sinewy English: " My paramount purpose in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...I could save 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... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 662 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...I could save 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 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...I could save 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... | |
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