| Charles Pierce Roland - 2004 - 348 páginas
...letter: "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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Michael Lee Lanning - 2004 - 344 páginas
...stating, "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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Richard Wormser - 2004 - 238 páginas
...the war: "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 save it by freeing some and... | |
| Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 páginas
...declared, "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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Derrick Bell - 2004 - 248 páginas
...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 if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
| Derrick Bell - 2004 - 240 páginas
...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 if I could save it by freeing some and... | |
| James P. Pfiffner - 2003 - 230 páginas
...Greeley: 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 save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| David Nevin - 2005 - 644 páginas
...whether we'll let it break the Union. Let me put it plainly, madam. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 1 would welcome the South back this evening, slaves and all, if it would... | |
| Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - 2006 - 368 páginas
...the slavery question, and to his approach on the entire war. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy...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 save it by freeing some and... | |
| David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 páginas
...days later, Lincoln replied with a famous letter reiterating: "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 freeing any slave I would do it. ..." What Greeley and other critics did not know is that Lincoln had... | |
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