 | Livingston County (N.Y.) - 1877 - 610 pages
...public opinion pushed him on. To the importunate protest of Greeley, made August 9, 1862, he 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... | |
 | Samuel Haughton - 1877 - 364 pages
..." President Lincoln, in a letter to Horace Greeley, writes : ' My paramount object in the struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.' " "Always excepting the few Abolitionists. For four years, masses of men of the same race were banded... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...impression, and was particularly disrelished by antislavery men. Saying that his paramount object was to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery, he added the famous epigrammatic utterance already quoted in these pages, and which was so often repeated,... | |
 | 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 - United States - 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... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 pages
...would 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 either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and, if I... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 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;... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1881 - 674 pages
...spirits. They began to talk of giving freedom to the slave as well as of the restoration of the Union. " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery," wrote President Lincoln to Horace Grecloy, August 22d, 1862, reflecting doubtless the feelings of nearly... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 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 either to save or to destroy slavery. " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...brought to bear upon Mr. Lincoln to lead him to confiscate slaves and declare emancipation, he wrote : " 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... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 
