 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; and if I could...  A Short History of the United States - Page 575by John Spencer Bassett - 1913 - 885 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 270 pages
...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 <7//the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union...without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if 1 could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...slavery. If I could LINCOLN'S TWO DIFFICULTIES. li\. "What? No Monty I t\o Men .'" 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 do also that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 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 - Presidents - 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 Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 pages
...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 slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Rev. W. D. Simonds - United States - 1894 - 246 pages
...— - - M y 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...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 - Illinois - 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 - United States - 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... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1897 - 694 pages
...course which Stevens and Greeley urged. In reply to the latter's letter, he wrote (August 22, 1862): "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." He felt then that the times were critical, and that if he should issue... | |
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