 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
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 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;... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1903 - 526 pages
...letter in which he declared that his 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 slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
 | Andrew Linklater - 2000 - 384 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;... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 pages
...letter to Greeley three days later: 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... | |
 | Chester G. Hearn - 2000 - 274 pages
...Congress.2 Lincoln, in 1862, used more defining words when he said, "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 by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also... | |
 | Alan Dawley - 2000 - 336 pages
...president and would have agreed that the permanent objective of the North during the Civil War was "to save the Union . . . and not either to save or to destroy slavery."8 Like Lincoln, Alley did not seek war with the South, but neither did he shrink from that... | |
 | Stanley A. Renshon - 2001 - 422 pages
...bore on this single, simple matter: 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... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 pages
...two days later. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union," Lincoln wrote, "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;... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2001 - 532 pages
...way might best further the preservation of the Union, and that "my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery." It was only as a military measure, and as directed against the enemies of the Federal Government, that... | |
 | Ethan M. Fishman - 2002 - 248 pages
...Lincoln cautiously stated the North's objective during the war: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or to...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any of the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others... | |
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