 If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount...  The Words of Abraham Lincoln, for Use in Schools - Page 162by Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...slavery. If I could LINCOLN'S TWO DIFFICULTIES. li\. "What? No Monty I t\o Men .'" save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do also that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. . . . 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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 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... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 pages
...to Mr. Greeley, on the 2ad of August, 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 any slaves, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | Lewis Appleton - Politicians - 1889 - 244 pages
...language of President Lincoln : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing one slave, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. What... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1889 - 458 pages
...September 22d, he wrote to Mr. Greeley as follows : '' 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 slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it,... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1889 - 894 pages
...September 22d, he wrote to Mr. Greeley as follows : " 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 slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : ' If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows: 'What I do about slavery... | |
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