| Bocardo Bramantip - 1894 - 108 páginas
...August 22, 1862, the President used the following language, in a letter written to Greeley himself : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." And again : " As to the policy I would seem to be pursuing, as you say, I have not... | |
| Bocardo Bramantip - 1894 - 106 páginas
...August 22, 1862, the President used the following language, in a letter written to Greeley himself : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." And again : " As to the policy I would seem to be pursuing, as you say, I have not... | |
| Robert Cowley - 2002 - 452 páginas
...the editor of the New York Tribune: 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 158 slaves I would do it;... | |
| Eugene C. Tidball - 2002 - 594 páginas
...public statements. In part, he said, "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 the Union by freeing some and leaving others alone... | |
| Max Shachtman - 2003 - 188 páginas
...Union," he wrote to Horace Greeley in New York on August 22, 1862, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. 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 do it by freeing some... | |
| Mason I. Lowance - 572 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; and... | |
| Frances Harding Casstevens - 2003 - 344 páginas
...explained to newspaper editor Horace Greely that his primary objective was "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;... | |
| James Trager - 2010 - 4679 páginas
...Union," writes President Lincoln August 22 in a letter to Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune, "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 do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and... | |
| 2003 - 260 páginas
...device of the public letter, in this instance having the dignity of a state paper, Lincoln answered, "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... | |
| Hondon B. Hargrove - 2003 - 274 páginas
...paramount object is this struggle to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If 1 could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about... | |
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