 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...would also do that. " What I 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...shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause. ' ' I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 pages
...freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save this...I do not believe it would help to save the Union.' If the majority of the people in the Northern States had cherished a sincere hatred of slavery they... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. " I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am...shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause. " I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors ; and I shall adopt new views so... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...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 the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...Wlint I do about slavery and th»; colored race, I do because I believe It helps to save the Union, tmJ what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save tho Union. I nhall d" les« whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurt« the cause, and ehall do... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...he wrote : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." " What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do...I do not believe it would help to save the Union." used these words : " Its foundations are laid, its corner stone rests upon the great truth that the... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...I would do it, and if 1 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 the Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would save the Union. I shall... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 998 pages
...would do it ; and if 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 1 believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...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...what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when I believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors,... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - Journalists - 1884 - 668 pages
...by freeing some and leaving 1 Lester's Life of Sumner, p. 360. others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do...I do not believe it would help to save the Union." l Accepting advice, the Republicans of Maine kept the abolition question out of their canvass, and... | |
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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 could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
