 | Thurlow Weed - New York (State) - 1884 - 670 pages
...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 if I could do it by freeing some and leaving 1 Lester's Life of Sumner, p. 360. others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885 - 404 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1889 - 478 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." As a consequence of the Proclamation, "black regiments" were formed,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
