 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...  Complete Works - Page 194by Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 388 pages
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. — Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862 Forty acres . . . and a hut would... | |
 | Howard Jones - 2002 - 260 pages
...either to save or to destroy slavery." He continued: "If I could save the Union without freeing anv slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."19 Lincoln again demonstrated his political acumen in responding to Greeley's... | |
 | Alice E. Carter, Richard J. Jensen - 2003 - 270 pages
...Tribune editor Horace Greeley about emancipation, wherein he wrote, "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." Within months of this letter, Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 2003 - 268 pages
...president remained ambivalent, informing editor Horace 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. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | James Trager - 2010 - 4679 pages
...New-York Tribune, "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 do...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." An Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln September 22... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | Arnie Bernstein - 2003 - 308 pages
...New York Tribune, "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...do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and having others alone, I would also do that."14 Was this really Lincoln's belief or part of a shrewd... | |
 | Derrick Bell - 2004 - 248 pages
...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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 2007 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | John Spiller - 2005 - 356 pages
...from Lincoln to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, 22 August 1862 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. • Source D: Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government... | |
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