 seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, the Union...  Michigan, a history of governments - Page 356by Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless... | |
 | Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless... | |
 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 pages
...was, in turn, published in the New York Tribune on August 25: I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be to "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — the Union as it was. If there be those who would not save the Union unless... | |
 | C. Vann Woodward - History - 1997 - 385 pages
...on many occasions in the most solemn tones. "I would save the Union," he insisted; "I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' ... My paramount object in this struggle is to save... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...23 AUGUST 1862 I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...Confiscation Act, Lincoln, far from revealing his purpose, published the oft-quoted reply, I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way...authority can be restored, the sooner the Union will be 23 Ibid., 84, 91-2; JG Randall, Lincoln the President, 4 vok. (New York, 1945-55), 2 : 136. 24 Lincoln,... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...Olbrechts-Tyteca's sense when, in a letter to Horace Greeley, he says: I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless... | |
 | Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "The Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be to the Union as it was. If there be those who would not save the Union, unless... | |
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