 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...right. As to the policy I seem to be pursuing, as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest...be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union it was. * * * If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union it was. • * * 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 object in this struggle is to nine the Union,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1884 - 312 pages
...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 LINCOLN AS A UNION SAVEK. 187 slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...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. Mv paramount object is to save tke Union, and not either... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - New York (State) - 1885 - 1128 pages
...through the Tribune an immediate Emancipation Proclamation. Said Lincoln, "I would save the Union ; 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 object is to save the Union, and not either... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Michigan - 1885 - 396 pages
...sentences his policy and purpose at that time. "I would," he said, "save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the sooner the Union will be ' the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...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 object is to save the Union, and not either... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 pages
...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 object is to save the Union, and not either... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...right. As to the policy 1 "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest...the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was."2 If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest...the nearer the Union will be " the Union as it was." 1 If there be those who would 1 This letter was first printed the phrase, " Broken eggs can in the... | |
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seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union... 
