| Elbridge Streeter Brooks - United States - 1899 - 418 pages
...paramount duty," he said, " is to save the Union, and not either to destroy or save slavery. . . . 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.... | |
| Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some...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."... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 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.... | |
| Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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.... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 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.... | |
| William Livingstone - Michigan - 1900 - 596 pages
...freeing all the slaves I would do it—and if I could do it by freeing some of the slaves and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "What I do about slavery and the colored race. I do because I think it helps to save this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because 1 do not believe it would... | |
| Alexander Kelly McClure - 1901 - 476 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...because I believe it helps to save this Union; and \vhat I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. "I shall do less... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I '° us 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.... | |
| Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 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.... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 760 pages
...it by freeing all of 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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