 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...question of slav ery was wholly subordinate to this end and aim. " My paramount object is to save tlie Union, and 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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and i? 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 slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " 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 slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | 1862 - 620 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 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 ;... | |
 | Books - 1863 - 798 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 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 ;... | |
 | Union League of Philadelphia - African American soldiers - 1864 - 22 pages
...save the Union, unless they • could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union,* and not either to save or destroy slavery." • In these terse sentences are embodied the sentiment which ani" mates the great mass of the American... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object io this struggle it 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... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...destroy slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I woulil do it; and if I could вате it by freeing all Hie slaves, I would do... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...draft niggers as white men, etc. etc. could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 652 pages
...in a letter to Horace Greeley, written iii August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " 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 — it' I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it —... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
