aug 22, 1862 - Letter to Horace Greeley published in New York Times, August 24; “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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”
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