 | Confederate States of America - 1889 - 894 pages
...One month before the warning proclamation of September 22d, he wrote to Mr. Greeley as follows : " My paramount object is to save the Union and not either...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,... | |
 | Lewis Appleton - Politicians - 1889 - 244 pages
...language of President Lincoln : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing one slave, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. What... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...not save the 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...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union, without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all tbe slaves, I would do it; and... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...by some of the more ardent advocates of emancipation, he replied, in his usual forceful way : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 738 pages
...complaining of his 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...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,... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 pages
...old friend whose heart I have always found to be right. ' ' He then proclaims his " paramount object 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 it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...not save the 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 1 could save the Union, without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - English language - 1890 - 530 pages
...not save the 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 to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 922 pages
...and deepened peril to the Union. " President Lincoln in hi* reply said : — " My paramount object i* 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 this Union... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...not save the 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...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave I would do it. And if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. And if... | |
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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... 
