 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 462 síður
...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 save slavery, I do not agree with them. " If there be those who would not save the' Union unless they... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 622 síður
...her out from her great danger ; not to touch slavery unless her safety demanded it. He said : — " My paramount object 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. If I could save it by freeing all the... | |
 | James Quay Howard - 1876 - 266 síður
...the struggle for the Nation's life. As late as August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley: "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; and if I could... | |
 | 1877 - 610 síður
...public opinion pushed him on. To the importunate protest of Greeley, made August 9, 1862, he said : "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 slaves, I would do it ; if I could... | |
 | Samuel Haughton - 1877 - 364 síður
..." President Lincoln, in a letter to Horace Greeley, writes : ' My paramount object in the struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.' " "Always excepting the few Abolitionists. For four years, masses of men of the same race were banded... | |
 | Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 síður
...impression, and was particularly disrelished by antislavery men. Saying that his paramount object was to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery, he added the famous epigrammatic utterance already quoted in these pages, and which was so often repeated,... | |
 | 1878 - 656 síður
...knows. While history lives it will reecho the sad, solemn, pathetic assurance he gave to Mr. Greeley : " My paramount object 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. If I could save it by freeing all the... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1879 - 92 síður
...Republican newspapers denounced Mr. Lincoln for remissness and inaction. He replied in his defence, " My paramount object 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; if I could save it by freeing all the... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1879 - 36 síður
...slavery" was " an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union." President Lincoln in his reply said: — "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . . What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1879 - 380 síður
...five million bales of cotton into money." THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR. 30. President Lincoln had said : " 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 slaves, I would do it; if I could... | |
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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... 
