 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
 | Charles Pierce Roland - 2004 - 348 pages
...Tribune, Horace Greeley, published a plea for emancipation, Lincoln replied in a published letter: "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... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - 2003 - 230 pages
...reflected in a letter he wrote to the New York Tribune in response to an editorial by Horace Greeley: 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... | |
 | Richard Wormser - 2004 - 238 pages
...New York Tribune, when he refused demands by Northern abolitionists to end slavery early in the war: "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;... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - 2004 - 758 pages
...Our people want nothing to do with the negro."43 In the face of such "aversion," Lincoln reiterated, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." He added, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it... | |
 | Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 pages
...finally arrived. Lincoln answered Greeley in a letter reprinted in the Washington National Intelligencer. "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.... What I do about... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - 2004 - 368 pages
...slavery, he did not initially aim to abolish it. He wrote to Horace Greeley during the war, saying, "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... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 784 pages
...nation to Greeley, August 22, 1862, one week before the preliminary proclamation, as follows: "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 save it by freeing some... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - 2005 - 360 pages
...the American polity" (Riley 1999, 19). Lincoln's goal, for instance, was preservation of the Union. "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... | |
 | Richard H. Groves - 2005 - 412 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 — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
 | Christopher Heath Wellman - 2005 - 236 pages
...these concerns posed two distinct questions. When discussing the issue of slavery, Lincoln explained: [M]y paramount object in this struggle is to save...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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