 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...  Annual Register - Σελίδα 297επεξεργασία από - 1870Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 534 σελίδες
...save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could doit 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 this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 600 σελίδες
...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 612 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 594 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - 1890 - 530 σελίδες
...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 this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 500 σελίδες
...save it by freeing all tbe 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 this Union. And what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - 1890 - 414 σελίδες
...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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 346 σελίδες
...views, to which, as I think, all men that aim at the preservation of the Government should adhere. The President said : My paramount object in this struggle...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 σελίδες
...letter to Horace Greeley written in 1862. ' If I could save the Union,' he wrote at that time, ' without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could...do about slavery and the coloured race I do because it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 344 σελίδες
...freeing any slave I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others...would also 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... | |
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