| Milton Hindus - 180 páginas
...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...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 destroy slavery. ... I have stated... | |
| Wilbur R. Jacobs - 1994 - 372 páginas
...in Lincoln Park, Chicago. There are the words: If there be those who would not save the Union less they could at the same time save slavery, I do not...there be those who would not save the union unless at the same time they could destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 271. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). If there be those who would not save the Union, unless...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... | |
| Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 páginas
...Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not...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 destroy slavery. If I could save... | |
| W. E. B. Du Bois - 1998 - 772 páginas
...in August, 1862, his editorial, "Prayer of Twenty Millions," which drew Lincoln's well-known reply: "If there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
| George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 páginas
...Preliminary Proclamation — a statement that angers some of his antislavery critics down to our day): not agree with them. If there be those who would not...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... | |
| Lowell Harrison - 2000 - 346 páginas
...his objective. 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...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 destroy slavery. If I could... | |
| Andrew Linklater - 2000 - 384 páginas
...Utopian moralists, is timeless in its eloquent wisdom. "If there be those," he wrote on August 22, 1862, who would not save the Union unless they could at...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... | |
| Hubert Harrison - 2001 - 510 páginas
...stated that point of view. In this letter replying to Greeley's, Lincoln said, among other things: Union as it was." If there be those who would not...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 destroy slavery. If I can save the... | |
| Robert J. Scarry - 2001 - 440 páginas
...proclamation, Lincoln wrote a letter to him dated August 12, 1862, stating, "I would save the Union; if there be those who would not save the Union unless...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. "': In the South slaves cooked in... | |
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