 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 922 pages
...slavery. . . . What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save tnis Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because 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 lui dification... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 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...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,... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1889 - 468 pages
...I would do it — and if IcmM do it by freeing tome and leaving othert alone, I would oho do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do...I do not believe It would help to save the Union." The encouragement of the letter lay not only In the growing popular conviction that the second alternative... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1889 - 458 pages
...would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that also. 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."... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1889 - 894 pages
...would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that also. 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."... | |
 | Lewis Appleton - Politicians - 1889 - 244 pages
...slaves, I would do it. What 1 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 the Union." This declaration and the subsequent emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln he severely... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...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 it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 580 pages
...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...doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.' " All this I said in the utmost sincerity; and I am... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 922 pages
...the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . . 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 I hare here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty; and I intend no mcdification of... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - History - 2004 - 368 pages
...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 it helps to save this Union." Toward the end of the same letter, Lincoln makes clear his personal position:... | |
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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. 
