 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
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1896 - 258 pages
...duty," he said, in this answer to Mr. Greeley, " is to save the Union, and not either to destroy or save slavery. 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... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 694 pages
...course which Stevens and Greeley urged. In reply to the latter's letter, he wrote (August 22, 1862): "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 - 1898 - 300 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... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 pages
...addressed him by Horace Greeley, in part as follows: 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; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1899 - 588 pages
...progress in the nineteenth century ?"' Lincoln's letter of August 22,1862, to Horace Greeley, declared: " 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;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 196 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... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1899 - 614 pages
...that time its slaves were not to be set at liberty by the final proclamation. 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... | |
 | James Schouler - 1899 - 870 pages
..." My paramount object in this struggle," as he declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. 2 " We wait... | |
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