 | Paul A. Cohen - 2003 - 242 páginas
...171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "/s 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." The People Shall ludge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy,... | |
 | James Trager - 2010 - 4679 páginas
...Lincoln August 22 in a letter to Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune, "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 do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 páginas
...with them. 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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Stephen J. Spignesi - 2004 - 292 páginas
...quotation from the left with the American from the right who said it. 1. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend... | |
 | Lars Christian Clausen - 2004 - 187 páginas
...in August of 1862, it was about the survival of the United States. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. Slavery and the fate of the Southern plantation was one issue; the 1850s... | |
 | L. M. Elliott, Laura Elliott - 2004 - 504 páginas
...Lincoln's "paramount" objective was to save the Union. He said, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." When support for the war began to wane in the North in 1862. Lincoln... | |
 | Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 páginas
...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...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.... What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Michael Lee Lanning - 2004 - 344 páginas
...stating, "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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - 2004 - 348 páginas
...letter: "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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Derrick Bell - 2004 - 240 páginas
...with them. 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 save it by freeing some and... | |
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
