 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
 | Southern Historical Society - 1889
...September 22d, he wrote to Mr. Greeley as follows : '' 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 ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it,... | |
 | Lewis Appleton - 1889 - 212 páginas
...but for " Union and Empire," and in support of this he cites the language of President Lincoln : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing one slave, I... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : ' If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows: 'What I do about slavery... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : ' If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows : ' What I do about slavery... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890
...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... | |
 | 1890
...slaves. To this letter he replied on August 22d, saying: " 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,... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - 1890 - 62 páginas
...emancipation, he replied, in his usual forceful way : " 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 423 páginas
...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 save it by freeing all tbe slaves, I would do it; and... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - 1890 - 398 páginas
...have always found to be right. ' ' He then proclaims his " paramount object 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 do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 317 páginas
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
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