 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...  Reminiscences - Page 252by Lyman Abbott - 1915 - 509 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 620 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. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...object. is to savetke Union, and not either to tave or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...ofgrrt is to save the Vhion and not either to gave or destroy tlarfry. If T could save tho Union without alono, I would also do tliat. What I do about nlavcry and the colored rnce, I do because I believe... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...is to save the 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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. " What I do about slavery or the colored race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...freeing any slave. I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I 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 consequences ; yet... | |
 | History - 1870 - 696 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 coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 730 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 coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - United States - 1870 - 286 pages
...freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do it." From the very beginning of the war, escaped slaves crowded within the Federal lines. They were willing... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 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. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...is to save the 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...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... | |
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