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" What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save... "
The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of Ohio - Page 228
by Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 356 pages
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 pages
...question of slav ery was wholly subordinate to this end and aim. " My paramount object is to save tlie Union, and 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...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 73

1862 - 486 pages
...Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " 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 slaves, I would do it ; and...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 73

1862 - 520 pages
...Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and i? 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 slaves, I would do it ; and...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116

1862 - 620 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 ;...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of ..., Volume 104

1863 - 798 pages
...slavery, I do not agree with them. 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 ;...
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Abraham Lincoln

Union League of Philadelphia - 1864 - 22 pages
...Lincoln wrote to those who urged him to convert the war for the Union into a war against slavery — " If there be those who would not save the Union unless...Union,* and not either to save or destroy slavery." • In these terse sentences are embodied the sentiment which ani" mates the great mass of the American...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object io this struggle it 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...
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History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving ...

Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 pages
...be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the вате time save slavery. I do nut acts to repress such persons or any of them in any...designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which freeing any slave, I woulil do it; and if I could вате it by freeing all Hie slaves, I would do...
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History of the American War, Volume 2

Henry Charles Fletcher - 1865 - 470 pages
...unless they Conscription Act ; and we might, if necessary, as well draft niggers as white men, etc. etc. could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree...destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it If I...
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History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close ..., Volume 1

Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 944 pages
...do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union uniese they could at the same destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount...Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. tf I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could it by freeing all...
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