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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... "
A Popular School History of the United States: In which are Inserted as Part ... - Página 276
por John Jacob Anderson - 1879 - 353 páginas
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The Great Contest: A History of Military and Naval Operations During the ...

Willis C. Humphrey - 1886 - 720 páginas
...intention to interfere with slavery;" and in August, 1862, he said, in a letter to Horace Greeley, "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." As a war measure, the President was finally compelled to do the act, giving the South,...
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Official Proceedings at the Dedication of the Statue of Daniel Webster at ...

New Hampshire - 1886 - 140 páginas
...save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the constitution . . . the Union as it was. 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 do...
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The "Twentieth Connecticut": A Regimental History

John Whiting Storrs - 1886 - 328 páginas
...prior to the proclamation of emancipation, Mr. Lincoln declared his "paramount object" to have been "to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery." McClellan had advised the president under date of July 7th that "military government should be confined...
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Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Volumes 1-2

Benjamin Perley Poore - 1885 - 1136 páginas
...positively : " I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way, under the Constitution. If I could save 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 some...
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Drum-beat of the Nation: The First Period of the War of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 páginas
...entitled the " Prayer of Twenty Millions," to which President Lincoln replied, August 22, 1862. He said : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave, I would do it. If I could save...
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Four Years with the Army of the Potomac

Régis de Trobriand - 1888 - 816 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, —...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 11

1888 - 922 páginas
...to 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 coloured race, I do because I believe it helps...
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Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time

Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 800 páginas
...prevent, the restoration of the Union. In his letter to Mr. Greeley, on the 2ad of August, 1862, he said : "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 slaves, I would do it ; if I could save...
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The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in ..., Volume 17

John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 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 either to save or destroy slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save...
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A Short History of the War of Secession, 1861-1865

Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 páginas
...to the policy I 'seem to be pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. . . . 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...
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