 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1889
...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
...with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 590 pages
...Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it ; and 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. ... I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890
...slaves. To this letter he replied on August 22d, saying: " 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1890 - 423 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 otbers alone, I would also do tbat. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1890 - 423 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 tbe slaves, I would do it; and... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - 1890 - 398 pages
...have always found to be right. ' ' He then proclaims his " paramount object 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 slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 62 pages
...emancipation, he replied, in his usual forceful way : " 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... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 317 pages
...President said : My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or to 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... | |
 | William Henry Seward, Frederick William Seward - 1891
...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 others alone, I would also do that." Seward, who had all his life advocated the freeing, not only the 118... | |
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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. 
