 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...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 slaves, I would do it....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... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...My paramount object is to save the Union, in id I would save it in the shortest way. 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 ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 470 pages
...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 could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race,... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - Cabinet officers - 1867 - 208 pages
...Union, and not either to save or to 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 — and if I could do * it by freeing sflme and leaving others alone,... | |
 | Ambrose Yoemans Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 406 pages
...My paramount object is to save the Union, and I would save it in the shortest way. 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 ; and if I could do it by freeing some and letting others alone, I would... | |
 | Livingston County (N.Y.) - 1877 - 610 pages
...paramount- object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to 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 slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1879 - 380 pages
...paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to 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; _, . and if I could save it by freeing some, and leaving pationof others... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 pages
...paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to 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 ; _, . and if I could save it by freeing some, and leaving pationof others... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...could save the Union without freeing a slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If i could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." The hearts of the people were greatly stirred.... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 pages
..."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 slaves, 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... | |
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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 slaves, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing... 
