 | 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... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...declared, "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... | |
 | Richard Wormser - History - 2004 - 238 pages
...the war: "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... | |
 | Michael Lee Lanning - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 344 pages
...stating, "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... | |
 | Derrick Bell - History - 2004 - 240 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... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - History - 2004 - 348 pages
...letter: "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... | |
 | Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...Washington National Intelligencer. "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.... What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - History - 2006 - 368 pages
...and to his approach on the entire war. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...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... | |
 | Wilson C. McWilliams - Social Science - 2006 - 366 pages
...he saw as his official obligation to subordinate the slavery question to preserving the Union. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union...and it is not either to save or destroy slavery," he wrote. "What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because 1 believe it helps to save the... | |
 | Thomas Harry Williams - United States - 1941 - 444 pages
...was in the offing. His only purpose, he told Grceley, was now as always to preserve the Union. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,...and it is not either to save or destroy slavery." Then came the intimation of things to come. "I shall do less whenever I shall believe that what I am... | |
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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... 
