 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; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could...  History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Страница 154по James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 454 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Najia Aarim-Heriot - 2003 - 318 страници
...famous "Prayer of Twenty Millions" made this clear. "My paramount object in this struggle," he stated, "is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery."4 A few weeks later, however, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the... | |
 | Paul A. Cohen - 2003 - 242 страници
...171-2. 25 "My paramount object in this struggle," Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley on August 22, 1862, "/s 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." The People Shall ludge: Readings... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 страници
...August 25th) as though he had had enough of the abolitionists. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery," he wrote to Greeley. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 страници
...could at the same time destroy 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... | |
 | Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - 270 страници
...later, Lincoln would state his war aim with crystalline precision: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." "To Horace Greeley" (22 August 1862), Collected Works, ed. Basler, 5:388. 51 "Speech... | |
 | Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 страници
...a letter reprinted in the Washington National Intelligencer. "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 I do about slavery and... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - 2004 - 368 страници
...abolish it. He wrote to Horace Greeley during the war, saying, "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; and if I could save it by freeing... | |
 | Derrick Bell - 2004 - 240 страници
...could at the same time destroy 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... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 страници
...slavery into the territories. Even as the war raged, he 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... | |
 | James P. Pfiffner - 2003 - 230 страници
...New York Tribune in response to an editorial by Horace 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... | |
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