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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 American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary for General Knowledge, Volume 15

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 998 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 1 believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would...
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Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...save it by freeing all the (laves 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 Union. I shall...
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Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone 1 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 Union. I shall...
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The Gray and the Blue: A Story Founded on Incidents Connected with the War ...

Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1884 - 312 pages
...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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. ' ' ' What I do about the colored race I do because I believe it helps to save...
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Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir, Volume 2

Thurlow Weed - 1884 - 670 pages
...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 do it by freeing some and leaving 1 Lester's Life of Sumner, p. 360. others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and...
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Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Volumes 1-2

Benjamin Perley Poore - United States - 1885 - 1136 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....
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The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History

John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...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....
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Mr. Punch's Victorian Era: An Illustrated Chronicle of the Reign ..., Volume 2

Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...also that. What I do about slavery and the coloured 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." AUG. 29. /"VN this day occurred the melancholy affray ^"^ at Aspromonte. Garibaldi had long been fretting...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 11

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...
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William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life Told by His ...

Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - Abolitionists - 1889 - 468 pages
...Union ivithout 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 do it by freeing some...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...
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