 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 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...the colored race, I do because I believe it helps save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 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.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows: '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.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 586 pages
...some and leaving others alone I would also do that ' ; I continued in the same letter as follows : ' 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.... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 724 pages
...Union without 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. ... I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 738 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 and leaving others alone, I would also do that. " The position which the president now occupied was peculiarly trying,... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 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 and leaving others alone, I would also do that." In this, as in all other important matters, it was a part of his policy... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...save the Union and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave I would do it. And if I could do it by freeing...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if 1 could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some...this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I io not VeSeve it would help to save the Union. I shall do loss whenever I shall believe what I am doing... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - Missouri - 1891 - 344 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.... | |
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I would do it; and 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 colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the... 
