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" 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 ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could... "
The Living Age - Page 680
1909
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 972 pages
...unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object ID 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...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ...

Frank Crosby - 1865 - 506 pages
...L do not agree with them My paramount object in this The Union to be Saved. Emancipation Indicated. 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...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ...

Frank Crosby - 1865 - 480 pages
...do not agree with them. My paramount object in this The Union to be Saved. Emancipation Indicated. 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...
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Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...

David Brainerd Williamson - 1865 - 322 pages
...letter, ' My paramount object is to save the Union, in id I would save it in the shortest way. 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 if I could do it by freeing some...
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The Picture and the Men: Being Biograhical Sketches of President Lincoln and ...

Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1867 - 208 pages
...variation of assertion, of this object. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could...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...
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The Life of Schuyler Colfax

Ambrose Yoemans Moore - 1868 - 406 pages
...letter: " ' My paramount object is to save the Union, and I would save it in the shortest way. 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 if I could do it by freeing some...
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The Annual Register

1870 - 696 pages
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...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 ;...
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Annual Register

Edmund Burke - 1870 - 730 pages
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...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 ;...
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Commentaries Upon International Law, Volume 1

Sir Robert Phillimore - 1871 - 800 pages
...letter written and published by him in 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 slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could...
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The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth ...

James Parton - 1872 - 820 pages
...would not save the Union unless 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 save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could...
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