 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.  Life of Schuyler Colfax - Page 195by Ovando James Hollister - 1886 - 535 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...save the Union, and it is 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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...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—and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...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 — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...it to Mte tlie Union, and not either to sate or dcttroy Slirery. " If I could save the Union without | + all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...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 — and if I could save it by freeing some and letting others alone, I would also do that." In September, he published a proclamation, distinctly... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...to save the Union, and not either to iavt or to dettroy tlavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all tho slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...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 — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...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 ; and if I could do it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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 — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...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...could save it by freeing some, and leaving others alone, I would do it." He vras not yet quite prepared to issue a proclamation fraught with such momentous... | |
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