| United States - 1895 - 592 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...w:hat I forbear I forbear because I do not believe that it would help to save the Union." This appeared to settle for a long time the position of Lincoln... | |
| Gilbert John Clark - Law - 1895 - 434 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 believe it would help to save the Union." —... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 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." Yet at that very time he had prepared the draft of his first emancipation... | |
| Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Diligence - 1896 - 258 pages
...the Union without freeing any slaves, 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...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.... | |
| Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 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.... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1896 - 94 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.... | |
| Richard Meade Bache - United States - 1897 - 698 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 and leaving others alone, I would also do that." He saw now that the logical necessity of the edict for the manumission... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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, 1 forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.... | |
| American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1899 - 752 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...What I do about slavery and the colored race I do it because I believe it helps to save this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe... | |
| Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 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.... | |
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