 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...Wlint I do about slavery and th»; colored race, I do because I believe It helps to save the Union, tmJ what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save tho Union. I nhall d" les« whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurt« the cause, and ehall do... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...he wrote : " My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." " What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do...I do not believe it would help to save the Union." used these words : " Its foundations are laid, its corner stone rests upon the great truth that the... | |
 | Robert Clemens Smedley - Abolitionists - 1883 - 474 pages
...all the slaves I would do it, and if 1 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 Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would save the Union. I shall... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - New York (State) - 1884 - 670 pages
...I could do it by freeing some and leaving 1 Lester's Life of Sumner, p. 360. others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored...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...help to save the Union. '"I shall do less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when ever I believe doing more will help... | |
 | Timothy Thomas Fortune - African Americans - 1884 - 324 pages
...all the (laves 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 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 Union. I shall... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - United States - 1885 - 1136 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - United States - 1886 - 562 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Punch (London, England) - Caricatures and cartoons - 1886 - 358 pages
...also that. What I do about slavery and the coloured 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." AUG. 29. /"VN this day occurred the melancholy affray ^"^ at Aspromonte. Garibaldi had long been fretting... | |
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If I could save the Union without 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. 
