Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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11 If there 1 in it airj bat ments or assumptioi ' fa t which 1 may Unow to be erroneou I donol now and here c >nt r >verl t hem.' It* there be any inferences which I ma I li to b falsely drawn, l do not now and hei irinie 91 asrainst them. u I f there be perceptible in it an impatienl and di Ltorial tone, I waive it in defer ce to an old friend whose heart 1 have always suppos to I ricrht/' u If there be those who would not save the Union unless thev could at the same time save -hi' rv. I d i not agree with them,"' "If there be those who would not save the union unl. *s thev could at the same time destroy slavery I do not agree with them." "My i iramount object is to save the Union, ami not i itlu to save or destroy slavery •It I could save t •• Union without fr ein any -la\ •. I would (U) it — if I c >uld save it by freein ill the slaves, 1 would di^ it —and it I could do it 1 by fre ring some and leaving other- alone. I w aid LISO do that.'" ••What 1 do about slavery and the < riored race, 1 • I tuse 1 believe it helps to save the Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I di^ not believe it would help I > save the I nion." I shall d i less whenever I shall believe that i t k% « hat Ianid n hurts the eause. and I shall ll more w hen >ver 1 believe doin<j more will help tin i shall tr\ to correct errors when shown to In a n d I h a l l a d o p l n e w \ d e w - SO f a s t d i a l I i p p a p t o be t n n \ iew s. " as the\ I have hei bated my purpos* rdin to m\ v " f H ia I dul a nil I intend no imuiiti w ion I
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