seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union... Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People - Página 273por Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 433 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who 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,... | |
| Milton Hindus - 180 páginas
...Lincoln's calm reply to Horace Greeley's reproachful editorial in The New York Tribune in August, 1862: I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery,... | |
| Michel Rosenfeld - 1994 - 452 páginas
...Publishing Co. 1969) (1849). 66 See 2 LINCOLN, supra note 53, at 215-24. 67 See id. at 357-58; for example, "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who 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,... | |
| C. Vann Woodward - 1997 - 385 páginas
...Lincoln announced this on many occasions in the most solemn tones. "I would save the Union," he insisted; "I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution....the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' ... My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy... | |
| David A. J. Richards - 1998 - 545 páginas
...1989), 2: 215-24. 5. See Lincoln to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862, in Speeches and Writings, 2:357-58. "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing... | |
| Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 páginas
...would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who 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,... | |
| George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 páginas
...— a statement that angers some of his antislavery critics down to our day): not agree with them. If there be those who 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,... | |
| W. E. B. Du Bois - 1998 - 772 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who 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... | |
| Andrew Linklater - 2000 - 384 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who 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,... | |
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