 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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could...  The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories - Página 21editado por - 1997 - 450 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 páginas
...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 lo destroy slavery. [Italics added.] If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 páginas
...Fremont should not have dragged the negro into it."13 As he wrote Horace Greeley with raw honesty, 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... | |
 | James W. Loewen - 2007 - 464 páginas
...fifteen of the eighteen books, is his letter of August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune: 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... | |
 | Robert H. Ferrell - 2007 - 363 páginas
...emphatic. "Now is the time" To underline his argument, he told Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune: "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... | |
 | Miodrag A. Jovanović - 2007 - 257 páginas
...anti-abolitionists."19 Finally, in 1862 Lincoln explicitly positioned himself with respect to slavery: [m]y paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave... | |
 | Gary Lee Roper - 2008 - 350 páginas
...as a woman of the town plying her avocation. " 147 The "Great Emancipator, "Abraham Lincoln, wrote: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...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 do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Paul Romero - 2008 - 92 páginas
...both sides but not in this war. No man has the right to hold another as a slave. Lincoln once wrote, "My paramount object in this struggle, is to save...union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery." In 1861, the Northern states held four-fifths of the nation's factories, more than two-thirds of the... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - 2008 - 293 páginas
...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 to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could... | |
 | Ricky L. Jones - 2010 - 160 páginas
...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 to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could... | |
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