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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... "
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... - Page 250
by Horace Greeley - 1866
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure

John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 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 or the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear...
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The Democratic Speaker's Hand-book ...

Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...1 would do it — and if 1 could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, 1 would also dp 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 of Schuyler Colfax

Ambrose Yoemans Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 406 pages
...the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and letting others alone, I would also do that. But I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that...
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The Annual Register

History - 1870 - 696 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." The emancipation of the slave was the result indeed of the war, but never its object. It was adopted...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 20; Volume 42

American literature - 1891 - 1020 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...Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what 1 am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause....
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Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 730 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 coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because...
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Commentaries Upon International Law, Volume 1

Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 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 coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because...
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Addresses [1870-1880.]

James Abram Garfield - United States - 1871 - 276 pages
...save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it If I could save it by freeing all ihe slaves I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving otheis alone, I would also do tliat. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because I believe...
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The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth ...

James Parton - 1872 - 820 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...believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do leis whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall...
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A Representative Life of Horace Greeley

L. U. Reavis - Publishers' catalogues - 1872 - 598 pages
...could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeingsome and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about...forbear because I do not believe it would help to save tho Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am. doing hurts the cause, and I shall do...
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