 | James Harrison Cathey - 1899 - 382 pages
...all the slaves, I would do it — if I could save it by freeingsome and leaving others alone, I would do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because it helps to save the Union. 18o From his message of March 6, 1862: — I recommend the adoption of... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1905 - 934 pages
...the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be to 'the Union as it was.' If there be those who would...would also do 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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 pages
...would save the Union," he said, frankly. " I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. If there be those who would not save the Union unless...and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving 331 others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 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 nice, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union ; and whnt I forbear, I forbear because I... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save...I could save it by 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 pages
...true, as you remind me, that in the Greeley letter of 1862 I said: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save...I could save it by 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... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1904 - 308 pages
...was never more clearly stated than in Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley : " I would save the Union. If there be those who would not save the Union unless...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - 1904 - 1358 pages
...unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount objection in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...others alone, I would also do that What I do about claves and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear,... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1905 - 690 pages
..."I would save the Union," he said; "I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." The true heart and singleness of purpose which animated Lincoln, as well... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1906 - 482 pages
...He wrote : " I would save the Union, I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. . . . My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." In fact, the last was the course which he eventually took. This letter... | |
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. 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... 
