 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
 | Rev. W. D. Simonds - 1894 - 246 pages
...subordinated Liberty to Union. In August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley as follows: — - - M y paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by treeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 422 pages
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount qbject 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, —... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save t/ie 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; and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...wouM 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 not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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 not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - 1895 - 434 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; atad if I could... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1860 - 312 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1896 - 94 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 ;... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1896 - 92 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 39 slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save... | |
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