 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 6801909Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 894 pages
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that also. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because I believe it... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 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 to destroy shivery. If 1 could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1889 - 478 pages
...Proclamation. This declared all the slaves in the seceding States to be free. He had said : " If of 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 and... | |
 | Lewis Appleton - 1889 - 244 pages
...but for " Union and Empire," and in support of this he cites the 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 600 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...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;... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - 1890 - 530 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 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 —... | |
 | 1890 - 724 pages
...doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. ... 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 ; and if I could do it by freeing some and... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 344 pages
...I think, all men that aim at the preservation of the Government should adhere. The 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 ;... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 346 pages
...the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle irto 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 slaves I would do it ; and... | |
 | Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward - 1891 - 638 pages
...that end. As he himself tersely stated his position: "My paramount object is to save the Union; and 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,... | |
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