| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 páginas
...could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle 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 it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 páginas
...could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle 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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 268 páginas
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to saz>e 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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 páginas
...time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save t/ie 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 save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and... | |
| Alexander Kelly McClure - 1894 - 312 páginas
...would not save the Union unless at the same time they could 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." At last, it became a supreme necessity to obey public sentiment in the North, and to disarm the threateaing... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 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... | |
| Rev. W. D. Simonds - 1894 - 246 páginas
...Horace Greeley as follows: — - - M y 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 treeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1894 - 684 páginas
...the question of which they persisted in seeing only one. To Horace Greeley, on 22 Aug., Mr. Lincoln 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 slave, I would do it; if I could save... | |
| Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1894 - 530 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 páginas
...September 22, 1862. Just a month before, exactly, he had written 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; if I could save... | |
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