Post by IRONCLAD on Mar 26, 2004 9:18:38 GMT -5
Lincoln on Slavery
A Moral wrong, but
President Abraham Lincoln was always against slavery on moral grounds. However, he was not an admirer of the black man, did not believe blacks should be granted the rights of American citizens, and did not wish that they be apart of American society. he believed that all blacks should be removed from the United States and resettled in some other country.
Lincoln on Slavery: “The monstrous injustice of slavery..... deprives our republican example of it’s just influence in the world enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty.”
Lincoln on Southerners: “If slavery did not exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up.”
Lincoln on freed slaves: “My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But a moment’s reflection would convince me, that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible.”
Lincoln on social equality: “What then? Free them, and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition? I think I not hold one in slavery, at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people on.” What then? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not..... A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.”
FASCINATING FACT:
Lincoln’s emancipation Proclamation actually freed no one. He did not free any slaves in the areas of the country controlled by the federal government. He freed only slaves in the areas in rebellion, precisely where he had no control.
Written by Stephen T. Foster
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By what I have read here, Lincoln (if he wasn’t killed) after the war, would have sent all slaves back to their Country.
If the South had won, Lincoln most likely would have done the same. Not because the North felt like they had done a wrong, but just because they didn’t want freed blacks in their country, even after the blacks fought for the Union. The South on the other hand, after winning the war, would have kept the color folks. Slavery was winding down before the war any ways, and after the war (about ten years or so) slavery would have died, and you wouldn’t had this hatred we have today.
So the points is, there would be blacks in Southern America, then there would be in the Northern America’s, if the South had won. So who had more hatred toward the Colored Folks?
But, you know that’s just my opinion.
IRONCLAD
A Moral wrong, but
President Abraham Lincoln was always against slavery on moral grounds. However, he was not an admirer of the black man, did not believe blacks should be granted the rights of American citizens, and did not wish that they be apart of American society. he believed that all blacks should be removed from the United States and resettled in some other country.
Lincoln on Slavery: “The monstrous injustice of slavery..... deprives our republican example of it’s just influence in the world enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty.”
Lincoln on Southerners: “If slavery did not exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up.”
Lincoln on freed slaves: “My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But a moment’s reflection would convince me, that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible.”
Lincoln on social equality: “What then? Free them, and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition? I think I not hold one in slavery, at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people on.” What then? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not..... A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.”
FASCINATING FACT:
Lincoln’s emancipation Proclamation actually freed no one. He did not free any slaves in the areas of the country controlled by the federal government. He freed only slaves in the areas in rebellion, precisely where he had no control.
Written by Stephen T. Foster
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By what I have read here, Lincoln (if he wasn’t killed) after the war, would have sent all slaves back to their Country.
If the South had won, Lincoln most likely would have done the same. Not because the North felt like they had done a wrong, but just because they didn’t want freed blacks in their country, even after the blacks fought for the Union. The South on the other hand, after winning the war, would have kept the color folks. Slavery was winding down before the war any ways, and after the war (about ten years or so) slavery would have died, and you wouldn’t had this hatred we have today.
So the points is, there would be blacks in Southern America, then there would be in the Northern America’s, if the South had won. So who had more hatred toward the Colored Folks?
But, you know that’s just my opinion.
IRONCLAD
. But then I really read into some books on him and suddenly he wernt my favorite no more! ;D