 | Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1884 - 312 pages
...and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. ' ' ' What I do about the colored race I do because I believe it helps to...help to save the Union. '"I shall do less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when ever I believe doing more will help... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - New York (State) - 1884 - 670 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...because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."1 Accepting advice, the Republicans of Maine kept the abolition question out of their canvass,... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone 1 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 Union. I shall... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...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 Union. I shall do less whenever 1 shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and 1 shall do more... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Michigan - 1885 - 396 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...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 fast... | |
 | Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1885 - 314 pages
...forbear I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. '"I shall do less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause. * # * * * * * " ' I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty,... | |
 | Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...also that. What I do about slavery and the coloured 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." AUG. 29. /"VN this day occurred the melancholy affray ^"^ at Aspromonte. Garibaldi had long been fretting... | |
 | Richard H. Groves - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others slaves, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do...what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it helps to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause;... | |
 | R. C. Smedley - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 486 pages
...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 do less whenever I shall believe...doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors,... | |
 | Robert McGee - Business & Economics - 2005 - 436 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 I believe it helps to save the Union;" Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Roy... | |
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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. 
