 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; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could...  United States Congressional Serial Set - Página 111914Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 páginas
...civil war, the same President said, " 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; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ;... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 páginas
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Union League of Philadelphia - 1864 - 22 páginas
...with them. " If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery." • In these terse sentences are embodied the sentiment which ani" mates the great... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 páginas
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 páginas
...agree with them. "If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I woulil do it; and if I could... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 78 páginas
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - 1865 - 494 páginas
...; and we might, if necessary, as well draft niggers as white men, etc. etc. could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 slaves, I would do it. If I could save... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 páginas
...agree with them. " If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 páginas
...agree with them. If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 páginas
...agree with them. " If there be those who 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 either to save or destroy Slavery. " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it—if I could... | |
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