| Mason I. Lowance - 572 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 Wells Brown - History - 2003 - 268 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." 17 Lincoln sought the right moment—a military victory—to unveil his true sentiments... | |
| Daniel A. Farber - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 272 pages
...without freeing a single slave he would do so; if saving the union meant freeing all the slaves, he would also do that. "What I do about slavery, and...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."... | |
| Matthew Pinsker - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 274 pages
...statements on emancipation since the summer of 1 862. Quoting from his letters to Horace Greeley — "What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union" — and to James Conkling — "the promise being made, must be kept" — he vigorously defended... | |
| Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - History - 2004 - 368 pages
...initially aim to abolish it. He wrote to Horace Greeley during the war, saying, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either...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:... | |
| Derrick Bell - Law - 2004 - 248 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 shall do less whenever I shall believe that what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall... | |
| James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 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."... | |
| 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 war... | |
| 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, I do 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... | |
| 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... | |
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