 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 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...  Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency - Page 92by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...line which he had laid down for his own guidance : ' ' My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1896 - 94 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 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 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 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1896 - 800 pages
...from the first day to the last of his term of office : My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1896 - 378 pages
...have been overcome by the logic of the situation. " My object," he wrote, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it." He... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1897 - 694 pages
...course which Stevens and Greeley urged. In reply to the latter's letter, he wrote (August 22, 1862): "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Richard Meade Bache - United States - 1897 - 698 pages
...of the New York Tribune, in which he had said : — " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | James Baldwin - United States - 1897 - 268 pages
...power and declare all the slaves free. He answered : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. "If ..I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If I... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 838 pages
...consummate the matter just at this time. ' My paramount object is to save the union,' he said, 'and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it.' Meanwhile... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...: EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. LETTER TO HORACE GREELEY. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 1862. HON. HORACE GREELEY. Dear Sir: — I have...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 save it by freeing some and... | |
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