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" 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... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... - Page 191
by Frank Crosby - 1865 - 476 pages
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Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting for

History - 2003 - 260 pages
...having the dignity of a state paper, Lincoln answered, "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 do it by freeing some and leaving...
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The Condemnation of Little B: New Age Racism in America

Elaine Brown - Social Science - 2003 - 404 pages
...his position: "Dear Sir ... I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to...destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it." 51 [ 9 ] Post-Emancipation Fight for Freedom We have pioneered civilizatlan...
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China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past

Paul A. Cohen - History - 2003 - 242 pages
...98-9,171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "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." The People Shall Judge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,...
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China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past

Paul A. Cohen - China - 2003 - 242 pages
...171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "/s 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." The People Shall ludge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,...
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Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War

Frances Harding Casstevens - History - 2003 - 344 pages
...editor Horace Greely that his primary objective was "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 do it by freeing some and leaving...
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A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865

Mason I. Lowance - 572 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 leaving...
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Reparations for Slavery: A Reader

Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - History - 2004 - 368 pages
...aim to abolish it. He wrote to Horace Greeley during the war, saying, "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 do it by freeing some and leaving...
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Citizen Lincoln

Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...Greeley in a letter reprinted in the Washington National Intelligencer. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.... What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe...
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Richard Wormser - History - 2004 - 238 pages
...the war: "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...
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The Character Factor: How We Judge America's Presidents

James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...Greeley: 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 leaving...
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