 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...  Abraham Lincoln - Página 107por John Torrey Morse - 1893Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Channing - 1912 - 684 páginas
...Constitution. . . . 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." The true heart and singleness of purpose which animated Lincoln, as well... | |
 | Charles Lester Barstow - 1912 - 240 páginas
...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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I 142 could save it by freeing some... | |
 | Daniel Webster Church - 1912 - 56 páginas
...I do not agree with them. My paramount purpose is to save the Union, and it is neither to save nor 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 of the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
 | Henry Eldridge Bourne, Elbert Jay Benton - 1913 - 652 páginas
...slavery." He thought that was for the Southern states to do. He said, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would also do that." He finally decided that he could save the Union only by destroying slavery.... | |
 | 1914 - 394 páginas
...self-constructed "Prayer of 20,000,000 of People" he wrote: "My paramount object is to save the Union and not to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would do that." Further: "My enemies pretend that I am now carrying on the war for the sole... | |
 | Ariadne Gilbert - 1914 - 452 páginas
...part) : " 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." Many other letters he read and answered; but, before he was through,... | |
 | Ariadne Gilbert - 1914 - 452 páginas
...part) : " 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." Many other letters he read and answered ; but, before he was through,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 218 páginas
...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 25 I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about... | |
 | Louis S. Gerteis - 2001 - 432 páginas
...... 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."1 When Lincoln wrote these words, he had already decided on an emancipation... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 páginas
...paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union," Lincoln wrote, "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 do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
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