 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 808 pages
...Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all tho slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some...I would also do that. What I do about slavery and tho colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 183 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object. is to savetke Union, and not either to tave 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 285 pages
...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 if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. But I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 297 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 —... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 30 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 —... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 216 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865
...Greeley, written iii August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " 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 — it' I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865
...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 slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 778 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and te the States and parts of States, if any, in which freeing any slave, I woulil do it; and if I could вате it by freeing all Hie slaves, I would do... | |
 | john minor botts - 1866
...the same time save 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...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... | |
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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 others alone, I would also do that. 
