 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 612 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : ' 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 ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows : ' What I do about slavery... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 594 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : ' 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 ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows: 'What I do about slavery... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 pages
...letter to Horace Greeley written in 1862. ' If I could save the Union,' he wrote at that time, ' without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could...also do that. . . . What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...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...What I do about slavery and the colored race I do becanse I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear I forbear because I do not believe... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1892 - 508 pages
...Gen. McClellan in McClellan's Own Story, pages 151, 152. freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." What Lincoln wanted was the speediest overthrow of the rebellion and the restoration of the Union, with... | |
 | Rev. W. D. Simonds - 1894 - 246 pages
...subordinated Liberty to Union. In August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley as follows: — - - M y paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would -also do that." These words — meaning nothing more nor less than that Union must take... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 410 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said: "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." I continued in the same letter as follows: "What I do about slavery and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : "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." I continued in the same letter as follows : " What I do about slavery... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 pages
...freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
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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... 
