 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 could...  Lincoln, the president - Stran 248avtor: Henry Clay Whitney - 1908Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | National American Woman Suffrage Association - 1912 - 688 strani
...used is essential to express his meaning, with the wonderful clearness and consummate force attained. "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others atone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 824 strani
...unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount objection in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slaves and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear,... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1912 - 684 strani
..."I would save the Union," he said; "I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." The true heart and singleness of purpose which animated Lincoln, as well... | |
 | Hilary Abner Herbert - 1912 - 280 strani
...Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Indeed, Congress had, in 1861, by joint resolution declared that the... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1912 - 344 strani
...by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save the Union by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear I forbear because I do not be64... | |
 | Henry Eldridge Bourne, Elbert Jay Benton - 1913 - 652 strani
...slavery." He thought that was for the Southern states to do. He said, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would also do that." He finally decided that he could save the Union only by destroying slavery.... | |
 | Ariadne Gilbert - 1914 - 452 strani
...while and gnawing the end of his pen, he wrote the famous letter to Greeley (quoted only in part) : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Many other letters he read and answered ; but, before he was through,... | |
 | Ariadne Gilbert - 1914 - 452 strani
...while and gnawing the end of his pen, he wrote the famous letter to Greeley (quoted only in part) : " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Many other letters he read and answered; but, before he was through,... | |
 | 1914 - 394 strani
..."Prayer of 20,000,000 of People" he wrote: "My paramount object is to save the Union and not 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 that." Further: "My enemies pretend that I am now carrying on the war for the sole... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - 1914 - 392 strani
...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 some and leaving others...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
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