[WhiskeyPapa]

Not only is it NOT at odds with other statements Lincoln made...

Yes it is.

"When you give the Negro these rights," he said, "when you put a gun in his hands, it prophesies something more: it foretells that he is to have the full enjoyment of his liberty and his manhood."

And later:

"it is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers."

Walt

[nolu chan]

[nc] Not only is it NOT at odds with other statements Lincoln made...

[Wlat] Yes it is.

It is Lincoln QUOTING HIMSELF from four years earlier. He must have held those cherished opinions for at least the four years from 1854 thru 1858.