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 alone, I would also do that. The Story of the Great Republic - Página 198por Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 349 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1910 - 964 páginas
...'understanded of the people.' 'My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could...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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 páginas
...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...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 leaving others alone, I would... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 páginas
...brevity, in a letter to Horace Greeley, written in August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy...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 letting others alone,... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 páginas
...being a government of the people, he as their President, wished them fully to understand his motives. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union,...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 leading others alone. I... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 páginas
...being a government of the people, he as their President, wished them fully to understand his motives. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union,...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... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 574 páginas
...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...slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I conld do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 568 páginas
...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...slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I conld do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
| Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1867 - 208 páginas
...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 save it by freeing all...would do it — and if I could do * it by freeing sflme and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Mr. Seward took it for granted that the war... | |
| John William Draper - 1868 - 628 páginas
...says Lincoln (August, 1862), " is to save the Union, and not either to save ject to save the or to 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... | |
| Robert Mackenzie - 1870 - 286 páginas
...system, he would do it with gladdened heart. Meanwhile 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
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