 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...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 it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...with them. 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : ' 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 continued in the same letter as follows: 'What I do about slavery... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 612 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said : ' 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 continued in the same letter as follows : ' What I do about slavery... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...save it by freeing all tbe 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 Union. And what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 pages
...could do 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 save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - English language - 1890 - 530 pages
...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 Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 346 pages
...President 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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 582 pages
...letter to Horace Greeley written in 1862. ' If I could save the Union,' he wrote at that time, ' without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could...do about slavery and the coloured race I do because it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 pages
...with them. 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 slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving... | |
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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... 
