More Dirt on Lincoln

"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary." -- Abraham Lincoln, debate with Stephen Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois, 1858.

In the same speach Lincoln also said that he was not and never had been "in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people."

Lincoln was indignant after Douglas insinuated that Lincoln favored equality for blacks: "Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the Negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can proce a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.

"On at least fourteen occasions between 1854 and 1860 Lincon said unambiguously that he believed the Negro race was inferior to the White race. In Galesburg, he referred to 'the inferior races.' Who were 'the inferior race'? African Americans, he said, Mexicans, who he called 'mongrells,' and probably all colored people." -- Lerone Bennett, Jr., Forced Into Glory, Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, p. 132.

"Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this . . . We cannot, then, make them equals." -- Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln's Reply to Douglas," p.444

Abraham Lincoln was in fact a great supporter of "colonization," which was the general name of several plans that called for the deportation of every single black man, woman, or child "back to Africa," or to Central American, or Haiti.

The idea that Lincoln waged a savage bloody war and [censored] all over that Constitution to end slavery is a joke.

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it." -- Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley

The Emancipation Proclamation was a desperate measure that came 18 months into the war, when the South was winning. It was carefully crafted so as not to free a single slave; after all, it only affected the territory held by the CSA. It didn't affect territory under US control where slaves were held. It was a transparent political ploy to incite a slave rebellion and to attempt to keep the European powers from intervening in the war on the side of the South on moral grounds.

The idea that a bloody war had to be fought to end slavery is itself a joke. Slavery ended in every other nation on the Earth, peacefully, in the 19th century because capitalism and capital-intensive manufacturing techniques had made it uneconomical, as had happened in the North, decades before. Slavery in the south was only propped up by laws against manumission (a slave purchasing his own freedom) and the Fugitive Slave Act, which externalized much of the costs of slavery from the slaveowner, both of which were supported by Lincoln.