 | David Herbert Donald - 2007 - 304 דפים
...that his "paramount object" was to save the Union, he told Greeley: "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." It would be easy to read these contradictory statements—and many of... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - 2004 - 368 דפים
...war, saying, "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 if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
 | Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - 2006 - 368 דפים
...the entire war. 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...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... | |
 | Bijian Zheng - 2006 - 102 דפים
...stressed: 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... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 398 דפים
...at work: "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... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 דפים
...began. "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 it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not... | |
 | Robert McGee - 2005 - 436 דפים
...to save the Union, even if it meant not freeing a single slave. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save...would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union;" Letter to Horace Greeley, August... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht, Rodney E. Hero - 2005 - 360 דפים
...Union. "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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that" (Riley 1999, 77). In the 1960s, members of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations... | |
 | Barbara Weisberg - 2009 - 338 דפים
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."12 The Banner of Light, eventually to become Spiritualism's longest running... | |
 | Anne Sarah Rubin - 2009 - 336 דפים
...Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley, in which the president explained, "If I could save the union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save...leaving others alone, I would also do that." What effect such a development might have on their already emboldened slaves was a sure source of consternation... | |
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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... 
