 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 410 páginas
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." I continued in the same letter as follows: "What I do about slavery and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 páginas
...freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 páginas
...freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 696 páginas
...22, 1862): "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." He felt then that the times were critical, and that if he should issue... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 páginas
...addressed him by Horace Greeley, in part as follows: My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. * * * I shall try to correct errors when shown to he errors, and I shall... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 618 páginas
...I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to !w falsely drawn, I do not, now and here, argue against...without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would doit; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 624 páginas
...dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to bo right. As to the policy I ' seem to be pursuing,'...without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would doit; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1899 - 588 páginas
...progress in the nineteenth century ?"' Lincoln's letter of August 22,1862, to Horace Greeley, declared: " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." 2 After such a candid statement it would have been very shallow hypocrisy... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1899 - 614 páginas
...that time its slaves were not to be set at liberty by the final proclamation. The President said : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862. 1863.] THE WAR IN THE EAST.... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - 1899 - 566 páginas
...Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley : — My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty,... | |
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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, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could... 
