...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 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...

...1863 Lincoln explained: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not cither 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...

...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 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 if, and...

...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...Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. "': In the South slaves cooked in army camps, built fortifications, drove munitions wagons, tilled...

...evidence of presidential culpability, the editorial cited Lincoln's famous reply to Horace Greeley: "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." "Could anything be plainer, could anything be meaner, could any thing be more diabolically selfish?"...

...Lincoln wrote in his famous August 22, 1862, letter to Horace Greeley, "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."73 During a debate with Stephen Douglas on September 18, 1858, Lincoln...

...fond of quoting out of context: "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 What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe...

...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 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...

...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 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...

...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 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;...