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 if I... Commentaries Upon International Law - Página 413por Robert Phillimore - 1879Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Schouler - 1899 - 686 páginas
...declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "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 1 Andrew of Massachusetts, May 14, 1861. * " We wait beneath the furnace blast save it by freeing... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 624 páginas
...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 doit; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 páginas
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because I believe it... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 páginas
...agreewith them. Myparamount 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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 páginas
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
| Charles Washington Moores - 1900 - 156 páginas
...Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... 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 have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty;... | |
| Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 páginas
...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 some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." ' But Abraham Lincoln... | |
| Frederic Bancroft - 1900 - 594 páginas
...declared : £_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 if I could save it by free* ing some and... | |
| Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 páginas
...to the editor of the New York Tribune : "My paramount object 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; and 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... | |
| William Hannibal Thomas - 1901 - 476 páginas
...the selfishness of man. " My paramount object," said he, " 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, and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Yet he was mindful to... | |
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