 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 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 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 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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...race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Uuion ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 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.... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 pages
...save it by feeing 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 save the Union. ...... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...that. What I do about slavery, about the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do...help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will... | |
 | James F. Simon - History - 2006 - 337 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."... | |
 | Deak Nabers - History - 2006 - 266 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.... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...considerations as much weight as Lincoln gave them.4 As late as the summer of 1 862, when Lincoln wrote, "What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union" in a public letter to the influential New York editor Horace Greeley, he seemed to hold... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 pages
...free all, some, or none of the slaves, depending on what was required to save the Union, he declared, "What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do... | |
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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... 
