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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. "
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... - Page 250
by Horace Greeley - 1866
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Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission ...

Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - History - 2006 - 368 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; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union....
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The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 705 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." l Pickering, the incessant, in one of his many and voluminous letters to Marshall which...
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The Civil War Confiscation Acts: Failing to Reconstruct the South

John Syrett - History - 2005 - 308 pages
...shortest way under the Constitution." And if that meant not disturbing slavery, then so it would be. "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 save the Union. I shall...
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Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Volume 2

Russell B. Goodman - Philosophy - 2005 - 398 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; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union....
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China's Peaceful Rise: Speeches of Zheng Bijian 1997-2005

Bijian Zheng - Political Science - 2006 - 102 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; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union....
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

Allen C. Guelzo - Enslaved persons - 2005 - 410 pages
...colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and ... I shall do less whenever 1 shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause" — was the moment when all bets against emancipation...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 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 it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to...
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The Active Society Revisited

Wilson C. McWilliams - Social Science - 2006 - 366 pages
...object in this struggle is to save the Union and it is not either to save or destroy slavery," he wrote. "What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because 1 believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forebear, 1 forebear because I do not believe it would...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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 this Uuion ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall...
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America's Forgotten History: Part Two - Rupture

Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 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; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help save the Union. ......
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