 | Benjamin Perley Poore - United States - 1885 - 1136 pages
...freeing any slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe that what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall... | |
 | Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do also that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save the...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... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 pages
...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...colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...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...colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...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...colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...The moment Lincoln suggested that slavery was in any fashion negotiable — the moment he declared that "what I do about slavery, and the colored race,...because I believe it helps to save the Union; and ... I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever... | |
 | Tom Meltzer - Education - 2004 - 372 pages
...dangers of a party system. 11. "If I could save the Union by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. . . What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union." The above statement was made by which of the following people? (A) Horace Greeley (B) Abraham Lincoln... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - History - 2004 - 368 pages
...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 it helps to save this Union." Toward the end of the same letter, Lincoln makes clear his personal position:... | |
 | Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.... What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union."54 On the eve of his Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln wanted Democrats supporting the... | |
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If I could save 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored... 
