 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
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 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. I... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 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. I... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - Presidents - 1881 - 430 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...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... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 268 pages
...save it by freeing <7//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.... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - United States - 1881 - 676 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. " I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish, that all men everywhere could... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1873 - 452 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...help to save the Union. "I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and shall do more whenever I believe doing more will... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - African Americans - 1881 - 264 pages
...it ; and if I could save it by freeing smne^ajidjeaving, others alone I would_a!so do that. /vVhat 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.... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1154 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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 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...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.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Country life - 1882 - 430 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...would also do that. " What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do... | |
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