 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
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...Wlint I do about slavery and th»; colored race, I do because I believe It helps to save the Union, tmJ what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save tho Union. I nhall d" les« whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurt« the cause, and ehall do... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 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... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...he wrote : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." " What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do...I do not believe it would help to save the Union." used these words : " Its foundations are laid, its corner stone rests upon the great truth that the... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...slave, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if 1 could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would...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 save the Union. I shall... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - New York (State) - 1884 - 670 pages
...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...because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."1 Accepting advice, the Republicans of Maine kept the abolition question out of their canvass,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1884 - 312 pages
...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...help to save the Union. '"I shall do less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when ever I believe doing more will... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885 - 404 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...would 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... | |
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