 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
 | G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 páginas
...larger number of opponents. He wrote: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." Easler, et al., eds., Collected Works of Lincoln, 5:388. As far as it... | |
 | Randall G. Holcombe - 2002 - 352 páginas
...his Emancipation Proclamation: "My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."6 The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, gave the... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 388 páginas
...Campaigns (1985). PART 3 Wartime Politics My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. — Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862 Forty acres . . . and a hut would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 456 páginas
...Twenty Millions." Lincoln replied: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone 1 would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Nathan W. Schlueter - 2002 - 212 páginas
...1862: "My paramount objective 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 1 would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Peder Jones, Jay Farness - 2002 - 478 páginas
...ideas. 1 . My paramount object in [the Civil War] 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. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty;... | |
 | Harriet Hyman Alonso - 2002 - 436 páginas
...reunited. As he wrote to Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune, "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."46 Willie agreed with his father, noting to his sister, Fanny, that he... | |
 | Howard Jones - 2002 - 260 páginas
...either to save or to destroy slavery." He continued: "If I could save the Union without freeing anv slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."19 Lincoln again demonstrated his political acumen in responding to Greeley's... | |
 | Demetrius Lynn Eudell - 2002 - 252 páginas
...to larger political objectives: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...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... | |
 | Robert Cowley - 2002 - 452 páginas
...Tribune: 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 158 slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
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