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 ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People - Стр. 273авторы: Norman Hapgood - 1899 - Страниц: 433Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Edmund Burke - 1870 - Страниц: 712
...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...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 ;... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - Страниц: 946
...I have always supposed to be right. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause,... | |
| Henry Charles Fletcher - 1865 - Страниц: 470
...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 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... | |
| David Brainerd Williamson - 1865 - Страниц: 322
...letter, ' 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... | |
| Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1867 - Страниц: 208
...variation of assertion, of this object. " My paramount object," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could...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... | |
| Ambrose Yoemans Moore - 1868 - Страниц: 406
...letter: " ' 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1870 - Страниц: 730
...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...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 ;... | |
| 1870 - Страниц: 696
...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...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 ;... | |
| James Quay Howard - 1876 - Страниц: 266
...August, 1862, President Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley: "My 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 slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it;... | |
| 1877 - Страниц: 610
...protest of Greeley, made August 9, 1862, he said : "My paramount- object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could...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... | |
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