If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount... The Century: 1888-89 - Page 4251889Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President said, " 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... | |
| American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...expounded his principles of political expediency in a way that could be 'understanded of the people.' '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 any slave, I... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...it in deference to an old friend, whose heart 1 have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant...the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, 1 would do it ; and if I could save it... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...government, we copy these sentences from the President's letter to Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " 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... | |
| 1862 - 620 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...government, we copy these sentences from the President's letter to Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and i? not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would... | |
| Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them, ily paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...would not save the Union unle>? they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree' with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time d'Slruy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object io this struggle it to save the Union,... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would 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... | |
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