 | Richard H. Groves - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others slaves, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do...what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it helps to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause;... | |
 | R. C. Smedley - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 486 pages
...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 do less whenever I shall believe...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert McGee - Business & Economics - 2005 - 436 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;" Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Roy... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
