 If I could save 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored...  The North American Review - Page 4251880Full view - About this book
 | Russell B. Goodman - Philosophy - 2005 - 398 pages
...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 save it by freeing some and leaving others...the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall 340 do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help... | |
 | Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - History - 2006 - 368 pages
...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 save it by freeing some and leaving others...the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help... | |
 | Robert McGee - Business & Economics - 2005 - 436 pages
...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 save it by freeing some and leaving others...do because I believe it helps to save the Union;" Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Roy P. Basler, ed.,... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 705 pages
...under the Constitution. . . If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...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 the ancient... | |
 | 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...forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...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 save it by freeing some and leaving others...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... | |
 | Richard H. Groves - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...freeing all the slaves, I 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...colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it helps to save the Union. I shall... | |
 | Anne Sarah Rubin - History - 2009 - 336 pages
...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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." What effect such a development might have on their already emboldened slaves was a sure source of consternation... | |
 | Wilson C. McWilliams - Social Science - 2006 - 366 pages
...object in this struggle is to save the Union and it is not either to save or destroy slavery," he wrote. "What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because 1 believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forebear, 1 forebear because I do not believe it would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...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 save it by freeing some and leaving others...the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help... | |
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