 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
 | Russell H. Conwell - Presidents - 1881 - 430 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 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... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...sam : time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " 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... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " 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... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union...without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if 1 could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 998 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885 - 404 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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... | |
 | New Hampshire - Concord (N.H.) - 1886 - 140 pages
...way under the constitution . . . the Union as it was. 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 i slaves, I would do it. If I... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...President Lincoln replied, 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 freeing a slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If i could... | |
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