 My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 355by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...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...help to save the Union. " I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...would help to save the 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - United States - 1871 - 276 pages
...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 It helps to save the Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it helps to save the Union. I shall... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Parton - 1872 - 592 pages
...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...believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do lea whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1872 - 772 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 the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
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