50 POINTS! URGENT !"The Union and Slavery" by President Abraham Lincoln, is a response to Horace Greeley's editorial titled "The
Prayer of Twenty Millions." The Union and Slavery: Letter From the President to Horace Greeley by Abraham Lincoln EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 1862. Hon. Horace Greeley: 1 DEAR SIR: I have just read yours of the 19th, addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it, in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. 2 As to the policy I “seem to be pursuing,” as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. 3 I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those save who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time Slavery, I do not agree with them. destroy My paramount object in this struggle to save the Union, and is either to save or destroy Slavery. If I is not could save the Union without freeing slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing the slaves, I any all 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 this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I not am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall more try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of duty, and I intend no modification official of my oft-expressed wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. personal Yours, A. LINCOLN. Public Domain Question 1 (5 points)
Which sentence from the text BEST states Lincoln’s belief about his role as president? Question 1 options:
A) If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them.”
B) "As to the policy, I ‘seem to be pursuing,’ as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.”
C) "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 I do not believe it would help save the Union"
D) I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification to my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free
