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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. "
Great Debates in American History: The Civil War - Page 214
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A Critical Review of American Politics

Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 676 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. " I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish, that all men everywhere could...
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Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future

Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 270 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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Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1

John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1873 - 452 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, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Including an ...

Russell H. Conwell - Presidents - 1881 - 430 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 helps to save the union. I shall...
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Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future

Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 264 pages
...it ; and if I could save it by freeing smne^ajidjeaving, others alone I would_a!so do that. /vVhat 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 age we live in: a history of the nineteenth century, Volume 3, Part 2

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...
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The Works of James Abram Garfield, Volume 2

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....
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The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ...

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...
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A History of the American People

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...
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History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties ...

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...
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