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... The Hero's Journey Toward a Second American CenturyMichael E. Salla 著 - 2002 - 224 ページプレビュー不可 - この書籍について
| Wilbert L. Jenkins - 2002 - 308 ページ
...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 colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
| Peder Jones, Jay Farness - 2002 - 478 ページ
...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. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty;... | |
| Howard Jones - 2002 - 260 ページ
...either to save or to destroy slavery." He continued: "If I could save the Union without freeing anv slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."19 Lincoln again demonstrated his political acumen in responding to Greeley's... | |
| Alice E. Carter, Richard J. Jensen - 2003 - 270 ページ
...Tribune editor Horace Greeley about emancipation, wherein he wrote, "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." Within months of this letter, Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation... | |
| Mason I. Lowance - 572 ページ
...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 colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
| James Trager - 2010 - 4679 ページ
...New-York Tribune, "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 do...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." An Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln September 22... | |
| William Wells Brown - 2003 - 268 ページ
...president remained ambivalent, informing editor Horace 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. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it... | |
| Arnie Bernstein - 2003 - 308 ページ
...New York Tribune, "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...do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and having others alone, I would also do that."14 Was this really Lincoln's belief or part of a shrewd... | |
| Michael Lee Lanning - 2004 - 344 ページ
...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." Even as he made that statement, the war itself was pushing the president... | |
| David Herbert Donald - 2007 - 304 ページ
...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... | |
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