| Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...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...I do 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1862 - 620 pages
...with them. 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...I do not believe it would help to save the Union.' The North would be willing to uphold to the letter in all existing States the right of the master over... | |
| 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... | |
| Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...with them. 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...this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because 1 do not believe it would help to siive the Union." I he passage in which the President here speaks... | |
| 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 - 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... | |
| 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... | |
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