It led to racial tensions which only get worse with each passing year. John Wilkes Booth did more to damage the South than all the Yankee armies. Lincoln wanted to heal our nation's wounds and solve the racial problems.
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Absolutely. Booth killed the only friend the South had in Washington. Lincoln would have been no hero to the leftists today had he lived and been able to recolonize blacks back to Africa as he wanted.
Lincoln's "Solution" was to induce blacks to leave the United States and go to other countries. It was the policy he had since before he became President, when he was an officer of an organization dedicated to doing this.
He wanted no "mixing."