| Books and bookselling - 1872 - 772 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 slavery and the coloured race I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
| Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - History - 1873 - 754 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...believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do lest whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall... | |
| Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - Journalists - 1873 - 744 pages
...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...would also do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
| John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 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.... | |
| John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 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.... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1880 - 664 pages
...without freeing ft slave, I would do it," he said. "If I could save it by freeing all the slaves*. I would do it; and if I could do It by freeing some...slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it help* to save the Union ; arid what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to... | |
| Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 624 pages
...the 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...forbear because I do not believe it would help to save this Umon." . Of course he was assailed on both sides. Bodies of men waited on him, begging him not... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 920 pages
...The slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I «ould also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored...help to save the Union. I shall do le'ss whenever I sfiall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will... | |
| James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 278 pages
...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." Slowly, gradually, after repeated disasters and disappointments, the... | |
| Whitelaw Reid - 1879 - 36 pages
...said: — "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...not believe it would help to save the Union. ... I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty ; and I intend no modification of... | |
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