 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...  Commentaries Upon International Law - Página 349por Sir Robert Phillimore - 1871Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 páginas
...declared, "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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that." At the same time, he reaffirmed his "oft-expressed personal wish that all men... | |
 | Richard Wormser - 2004 - 238 páginas
...the war: "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...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Lincoln was seen by some as not only the Great Emancipator of blacks... | |
 | John Spiller - 2005 - 356 páginas
...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... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 2007 - 304 páginas
...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... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - 2004 - 758 páginas
...Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." He added, "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."44 On September 22, 1862, five days after the North's victory at Antietam,... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - 2004 - 368 páginas
...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 also do that. What I do about Slavery and the colored race, I do because it helps to save this Union." Toward the end of the same letter, Lincoln... | |
 | Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - 2006 - 368 páginas
...destroy slavery, best relate his views on the slavery question, and to his approach on the entire war. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 páginas
...began. "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...would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 398 páginas
...at work: "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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Bijian Zheng - 2006 - 102 páginas
...stressed: 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
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