 | Boston (Mass.) - 1879 - 92 páginas
...Republican newspapers denounced Mr. Lincoln for remissness and inaction. He replied in his defence, " 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; if I could save... | |
 | 1880 - 632 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...the Union without freeing any slaves, 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 freeing... | |
 | 1880 - 614 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...the Union without freeing any slaves, 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 freeing... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would do it , if I could save... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - 1881 - 270 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1881 - 674 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - 1881 - 670 páginas
...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 either to save or destroy slavery." " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1881 - 430 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 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would do it , if I could save... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 842 páginas
...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 would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, —... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 páginas
...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 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... | |
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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... 
