 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
 | Elaine Brown - Social Science - 2003 - 404 pages
...New York Tribune, explaining his position: "Dear Sir ... I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it." 51 [ 9 ] Post-Emancipation Fight for Freedom We have pioneered civilizatlan... | |
 | Arnie Bernstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 308 pages
...struggle is to save the Union," he wrote in August 1862 to Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, "and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If...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... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2008 - 296 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could...without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could do it freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Paul A. Cohen - History - 2003 - 242 pages
...98-9,171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "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." The People Shall Judge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,... | |
 | Paul A. Cohen - China - 2003 - 242 pages
...171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "/s 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." The People Shall ludge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,... | |
 | James Trager - Reference - 2010 - 4679 pages
...Lincoln August 22 in a letter to Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune, "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 do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 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 leaving... | |
 | Max Shachtman - Social Science - 2003 - 188 pages
...this struggle is to save the Union," he wrote to Horace Greeley in New York on August 22, 1862, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it,... | |
 | Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...finally arrived. Lincoln answered Greeley in a letter reprinted in the Washington National Intelligencer. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.... What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...Greeley: 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 leaving... | |
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