 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows: '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.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 586 pages
...some and leaving others alone I would also do that ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows : ' 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.... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...save the Union and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave I would do it. And if I could do it by freeing...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. I... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if 1 could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some...this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I io not VeSeve it would help to save the Union. I shall do loss whenever I shall believe what I am doing... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 pages
...save it by freeing all the slaves I 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...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.... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 346 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...would help to save the Union. 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... | |
 | 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
...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 not believe it would help to save the Union.' But he also added, ' I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.' That... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some...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.... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - Belgium - 1892 - 472 pages
...save it by freeing all the slaves, I 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...what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it will help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...save it by freeing all the slaves I 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...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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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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save... 
