 | 1901 - 814 Seiten
...injustice and slavery. I sec the. storm coming and I know that His hand is in it." In the Greeley letter: " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." " I shall do less whenever I shall believe that what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1899 - 752 Seiten
...slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | William Livingstone - 1900 - 596 Seiten
...a personal reply. In this reply he clearly defined his position in the following terse paragraphs: "If there be those who would not save the Union unless...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... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 Seiten
...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 destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 Seiten
...1862, Letter to Horace Greeley— Hanaford, p. 241.) My paramount object is to save the Union and 212 not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would do it, if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 Seiten
...Sept. 22, 1862. Just a month before, exactly, he had written to the editor of the New York Tribune : "My paramount object is to save the union, and not...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... | |
 | William Hannibal Thomas - 1901 - 476 Seiten
...as having its origin and continuance in the selfishness of man. " My paramount object," said he, " is 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, and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
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What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save... 
