 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...the second year of the civil war, the same President said : ' My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy...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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - United States - 1871 - 276 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 ihe slaves I would do it ; and if... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - Publishers' catalogues - 1872 - 598 pages
...agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not cither to savo or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeingsome and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1872 - 776 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in the straggle is to save the Union, and it is 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 Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 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...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... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 622 pages
...slavery unless her safety demanded it. 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 slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 278 pages
...Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley: "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Slowly, gradually, after repeated disasters and disappointments, the... | |
 | James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 266 pages
...Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley: "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing sonte and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Slowly, gradually, after repeated disasters... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...indifference to the sad necessities of the slave. " My paramount object," he saiJ, " 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... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1878 - 656 pages
...solemn, pathetic assurance he gave to Mr. Greeley : " 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... | |
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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. 
