 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 594 páginas
...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 - 612 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 344 páginas
...believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in itan impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference...without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 páginas
...letter to Horace Greeley written in 1862. ' If I could save the Union,' he wrote at that time, ' without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could...also do that. . . . What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 346 páginas
...the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle irto save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy...without freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1892 - 516 páginas
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I...without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by administration and the Republican party. He never gave them credit for honesty or... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - 1892 - 378 páginas
...with them. 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 do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1892 - 508 páginas
...Gen. McClellan in McClellan's Own Story, pages 151, 152. 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." What Lincoln wanted was the speediest overthrow of the rebellion and the restoration of the Union, with... | |
 | Rev. W. D. Simonds - 1894 - 246 páginas
...subordinated Liberty to Union. In August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley as follows: — - - M y paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would -also do that." These words — meaning nothing more nor less than that Union must take... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 410 páginas
...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 and... | |
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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... 
