 | 1878 - 656 pages
...knows. While history lives it will reecho the sad, solemn, pathetic assurance he gave to Mr. Greeley : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...destroy slavery. " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. And... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1879 - 92 pages
...Republican newspapers denounced Mr. Lincoln for remissness and inaction. He replied in his defence, " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union, without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1879 - 36 pages
...slavery" was " an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union." President Lincoln in his reply said: — "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . . What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1879 - 380 pages
...five million bales of cotton into money." THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR. 30. President Lincoln had said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; if I could... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 pages
...futile. To this the President responded in that evermemorable dispatch of August 22, in which he said : If there be those who would not save the union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the union unless they... | |
 | 1880 - 614 pages
...denned "his policy with respect to slavery" to be, "to save the Union. If there be those," he added, " who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they... | |
 | 1880 - 632 pages
...defined "his policy with respect to slavery" to be, "to save the Union. If there be those," he added, " who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - 1881 - 270 pages
..." Broken eggs can never be mended, and the longer the breaking proceeds the more will be broken."] 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... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - 1881 - 670 pages
...proof of Lincoln's fatalism is his letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862. In it he writes :— " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...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;... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 452 pages
...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 save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. " If there be those who would not save the Union unless they... | |
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If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy 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. 
