My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or 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 do it by freeing some... Politics and Pen Pictures at Home and Abroad - Página 337por Henry Washington Hilliard - 1892 - 445 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...slave, 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 leaving others alone, I... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...slave, 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 leaving others alone, I... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 páginas
...it to Mte tlie Union, and not either to sate or dcttroy Slirery. " If I could save the Union without | + all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 páginas
...brevity, in a letter to Horace Greeley, written in August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy...it — and if I could save it by freeing some and letting others alone, I would also do that." In September, he published a proclamation, distinctly... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...slave, 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 leaving others alone, I... | |
| Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 páginas
...not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...slave, 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 leaving others alone, I would... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 78 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...slave, 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 leaving others alone, I... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 864 páginas
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to sare or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...slave, 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 leaving others alone, I... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 páginas
...to save the Union, and not either to iavt or to dettroy tlavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all tho slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 páginas
...being a government of the people, he as their President, wished them fully to understand his motives. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union,...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would do it." He vras not yet quite prepared to issue a proclamation fraught with such momentous... | |
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