 | Timothy Flanagan - History - 2004 - 106 pages
...wrote in a letter to Horace Greeley, a newspaper editor in New York, "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." Lincoln called his effort to bring the country together Reconstruction.... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 705 pages
...under the Constitution. . . 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union." l Pickering, the incessant, in one... | |
 | Christopher Heath Wellman - Philosophy - 2005 - 236 pages
...explained: [M]y 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 save the Union by freeing some... | |
 | Richard H. Groves - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others slaves, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Deak Nabers - History - 2006 - 266 pages
...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...would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | James F. Simon - History - 2006 - 337 pages
...replied: "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...would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 pages
...his goal: 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...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...alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, about the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...paramount object in this struggle," he wrote, "is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of my official duty;... | |
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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... 
