 | 1916 - 330 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 354 страници
...it. "My paramount object in this struggle," as he declared in an oft-quoted letter to Horace Greeley, "is to save the Union, and is not either to save or...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." * But a year of desperate and indecisive conflict had shown to the North... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1916 - 136 страници
...with them.4 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.6 What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1920 - 134 страници
...save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery.5 If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.6 What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1918 - 464 страници
...and Constitution altogether." Still more explicitly and eloquently Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley: " 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." With unfailing patience and persistent magnanimity Lincoln stood unmoved... | |
 | Frank Bergen - 1918 - 78 страници
...occupied in 1850: "My paramount object in this struggle," said Lincoln, "is to save the union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps... | |
 | Frank Bergen - 1918 - 70 страници
...occupied in 1850: "My paramount object in this struggle," said Lincoln, "is to save the union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps... | |
 | David A. J. Richards - 1998 - 545 страници
...Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. ... 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." Ibid., 358. 6. See, for example, Lewis Tappan, "The War, Its Cause and... | |
 | Sam Charles Sarkesian, Robert E. Connor - 1999 - 244 страници
...explained: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not cither 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." While Grant's military abilities were undoubted, Lincoln was concerned... | |
 | Howard Jones - 1999 - 268 страници
...and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." He continued: "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."19 Lincoln again demonstrated his political acumen in responding to Greeley's... | |
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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... 
