 | Frederic Bancroft - 1899 - 588 pages
...declared: " 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... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. * " We wait beneath the furnace blast save it by freeing... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 pages
...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... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1899 - 614 pages
...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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
...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 doit; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. 2 " We wait beneath the furnace blast The pangs of transformation... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to...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... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - History - 1900 - 386 pages
...they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to...without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." ' But Abraham Lincoln... | |
 | Will Thomas Hale - Southern States - 1900 - 278 pages
...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...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." He afterwards veered, doubtless through the instrumentality of the antislavery... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...agreewith them. Myparamount 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... | |
| |
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save 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... 
