 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 strani
...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 by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ;... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 strani
...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...slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all .the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 strani
...it to Mte tlie Union, and not either to sate or dcttroy Slirery. " If I could save the Union without | + all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 strani
...August of this year. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...it — and if I could save it by freeing some and letting others alone, I would also do that." In September, he published a proclamation, distinctly... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 864 strani
...slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to sare or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 232 strani
...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...slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 78 strani
...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...slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 strani
...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...slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 strani
...to save the Union, and not either to iavt or to dettroy tlavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all tho slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 strani
...understand his motives. 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...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would do it." He T7as not yet quite prepared to issue a proclamation fraught with such momentous... | |
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I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
