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Entry: On Lincoln-Bashing Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/on_lincoln_bashing#24958 Post contents: www.classicallibrary.org/lincoln/greeley.htm “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 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. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.” Lincoln’s Letter to Horace Greeley, Executive Mansion, Washington, August 22, 1862 www.geocities.com/presidentialspeeches/1862.htm “I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.” Abraham Lincoln’, 2nd Annual Message, December 1,1862, Washington, DC Sent at: 2008 07 24