 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
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 páginas
..."strangely and disastrously remiss." Three days later, Lincoln replied with a famous letter reiterating: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it. ..." What Greeley and other critics did not know is that Lincoln had... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 197 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same Mine destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I eould save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all... | |
 | Gregory Shafer - 2005 - 125 páginas
...so" (Zinn 184). Later, in a letter to Horace Greeley, he made clear how little he cared about slaves. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...union and is not either to save or destroy slavery," wrote Lincoln. "If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it" (186). Despite... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 páginas
...the policy I 'seem to be pursuing' as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt," he began. "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... | |
 | Bijian Zheng - 2006 - 102 páginas
...the Union." I also quoted from his famous letter written in August 1862, where he further stressed: 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... | |
 | Christopher Heath Wellman - 2005 - 236 páginas
...these concerns posed two distinct questions. When discussing the issue of slavery, Lincoln explained: [M]y 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... | |
 | Richard H. Groves - 2005 - 412 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 — if I could... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 398 páginas
...reply to Horace Greeley's public attack is a classic example of the accomplished pragmatist at work: "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... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - 2005 - 360 páginas
...the American polity" (Riley 1999, 19). Lincoln's goal, for instance, was preservation of the Union. "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... | |
 | Wilson C. McWilliams - 2006 - 366 páginas
...what he saw as his official obligation to subordinate the slavery question to preserving the Union. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and it is not either to save or destroy slavery," he wrote. "What I do about slavery and the colored race,... | |
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