 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
 | James Schouler - 1899 - 686 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. * " We wait... | |
 | Grolier Club - 1899 - 82 pages
...Abraham Lincoln the liberator of slaves, but Abraham Lincoln the Saviour of the Union, — he who said, " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." And these words are inscribed at the base of St. Gaudens's statue, showing the lofty and true historic... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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... | |
 | William Harrison Lambert - 1899 - 32 pages
...personal gratification could swerve him from what he conceived to be the obligation of his oath. " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. What I do about slavery 1 do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 594 pages
...conservative view or laid stress on the necessity of proceeding with caution. "My paramount object ... is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery," he wrote to Horace Greeley.2 To the committee of clergymen from the public meeting in Chicago of Christians... | |
 | James Harrison Cathey - 1899 - 238 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 —... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1899 - 642 pages
...final proclamation. The President said : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without ' sl would do it; and if I could "^ u fay freeins a" the sUv do it f T > I could save it by freeing... | |
 | Derrick Bell - 2004 - 240 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;... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 2004 - 196 pages
...to the policy I 'seem to be pursuing, ' as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. . . . 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; and... | |
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