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 also do that. What I do about slavery and the Colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5521862Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...said, " 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...not believe it would help to save the Union." The emancipation of the slave was the result indeed of the war, but never its object. It was adopted at... | |
| American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...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 helps to save this...I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I believe that what I am doing hurts the cause. I shall do more whenever I... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...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 helps to save this...I do not believe it would help to save the Union." From the purport of this letter it may be gathered, that the president was fast tending to that change... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 520 pages
...would also do that. " What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it will help to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear...I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...would also do that. " What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it will help to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear...I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...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 helps to save this...I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...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 helps to save this...I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do lrs» whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do thut. " What I do about Slavery and the Colored ; < = 0 @ + " I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...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 helps to save this...I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever... | |
| Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...do that. What I do about (slavery and tho colored race, I do because I believe it helps tu save the Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it wuold help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am dertoy hurts tho cause,... | |
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