 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...  Lincoln's Own Stories - Page 116edited by - 1912 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...freeing any slave / would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the (laves 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 Union. I shall do less whenever 1 shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and 1 shall do more... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone 1 would also do that. What I do about slavery and the...forbear because I do not believe it would help to save Union. I shall do less whenever 1 shall believe what 1 am doing hurts the cause, and 1 shall do more... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 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.... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - 1884 - 670 pages
...do that. What I do about slavery and the 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."1 Accepting advice, the Republicans of Maine kept the abolition question out of their canvass,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds Roe - United States - 1884 - 312 pages
...and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. ' ' ' What I do about the 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.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1885 - 404 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - Philosophy - 2005 - 398 pages
...freeing any slave, 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...help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall 340 do more whenever I shall believe doing... | |
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