 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...  Complete Works - Page xiiiby Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885 - 396 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...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 alone, I would... | |
 | New Hampshire - 1886 - 140 pages
...constitution . . . the Union as it was. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could do it by freeing all the i slaves, I would do it. If I could do it by freeing some and leaving others... | |
 | Ovando James Hollister - 1886 - 570 pages
...in the New York Tribune, he, on the 22A day of August, wrote : " 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 I could save it by freeing some and leaving others, I would... | |
 | John Whiting Storrs - 1886 - 328 pages
...prior to the proclamation of emancipation, Mr. Lincoln declared his "paramount object" to have been "to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery." McClellan had advised the president under date of July 7th that "military government should be confined... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 pages
...save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If i could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 pages
...to leave any one in doubt. . . . My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 534 pages
...letter to Horace Greeley, stating tl1at his paramount object was to save the Union, without reference to slavery. " If I could save the Union without freeing...slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could doit by freeing some and leaving others alone. I would... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - 1890 - 414 pages
...be right. ' ' He then proclaims his " paramount object to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 600 pages
...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 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;... | |
 | Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward - 1891 - 638 pages
...as might best conduce to that end. As he himself tersely stated his position: "My paramount object is to save the Union; and not either to save or to...without 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 do it by freeing some and... | |
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