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To: jeffersondem

Mention of this provision might have raised questions about President Lincoln’s commitment to the notion that “all men are created equal.”

“Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States.”

You edited out “with their own consent” to suit your own personal agenda.


162 posted on 12/27/2019 6:25:29 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe
“You edited out “with their own consent” to suit your own personal agenda.”

You have skimmed, rather than read, the relevant posts on this matter: posts 148, 151, 154, 156.

My post that offended you (156) excerpted a phrase from post 154 which itself was a partial summary of Lincoln's proposals. The summary did not include the words “with their own consent” and so those words did not appear in my excerpt.

If I had excerpted from post 148 the words “with their own consent” might have appeared.

In one sense you are correct: about 95 percent of the original post 148 did not appear in my post 156.

When the Lincoln memorial is updated for accuracy I will support carving into stone his ill-motivated reasoning for wanting to export black people including the words “with their own consent.”

183 posted on 12/28/2019 7:47:55 AM PST by jeffersondem
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