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... The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories - Página 21editado por - 1997 - 450 páginasVista previa restringida - Acerca de este libro
| Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 páginas
...letter written and published by him in the second year of the civil war, the same President said, " 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... | |
| 1910 - 964 páginas
...expounded his principles of political expediency in a way that could be 'understanded of the people.' 'My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I... | |
| 1862 - 620 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe... | |
| 1862 - 486 páginas
...government, we copy these sentences from the President's letter to Horace Greeley, of August 22 : — " My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| 1862 - 520 páginas
...government, we copy these sentences from the President's letter to 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... | |
| 1863 - 798 páginas
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. 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. What I do about slavery and the coloured race I do because I believe it... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1863 - 308 páginas
...slavery, I do not agree with them, ily paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could...without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 páginas
...at the same time d'Slruy 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...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... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 páginas
...slavery, I do not agre* with them. * My paramount olfject is to save the Union and not rttVr to tare 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 »Inve9» I would do it — and if I could eavo it bv freeing some... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 páginas
...same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object 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 — if I could save it by freeing all .the slaves, I would do it —... | |
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