| John Alexander Logan - 1886 - 912 páginas
...EXECUTION OF THE CONFISCATION ACT" DEMANDED — MR. LINCOLN'S FAMOUS REPLY —HIS "PARAMOUNT OBJECT, TO SAVE THE UNION, AND NOT EITHER TO SAVE OR DESTROY SLAVERY " — VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE OF A RELIGIOUS DEPUTATION FROM CHICAGO — MEMORIAL ASKING FOR IMMEDIATE... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 páginas
...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 it by freeing all... | |
| 1888 - 922 páginas
...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 to save tnis Union... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 574 páginas
...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 it by freeing... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 páginas
...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 it by freeing... | |
| 1889 - 894 páginas
...the warning proclamation of September 22d, he wrote to Mr. Greeley as follows : " 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 ; and if I could save it by freeing... | |
| Southern Historical Society - 1889 - 458 páginas
...warning proclamation of September 22d, he wrote to Mr. Greeley as follows : '' 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 ; and if I could save it by freeing... | |
| 1890 - 738 páginas
...policy in regard to the slaves. To this letter he replied on August 22d, saying: " 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 it by freeing all... | |
| Frederick W. Osborn - 1890 - 68 páginas
...more ardent advocates of emancipation, he replied, in his usual forceful way : " 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 it by freeing... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 500 páginas
...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 it by freeing... | |
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