Alton, Ill., in 1858, “in favor of our new territories being in such a condition that white men may find a home ... as an outlet for free white people everywhere, the world over.”
“But for your race among us there could not be a war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or another.
Lincoln claimed that “the people of Mexico are most decidedly a race of mongrels. I understand that there is not more than one person there out of eight who is pure white.”
” In 1860, Lincoln called for the “emancipation and deportation” of slaves.
Mr. Bennett adds.
“People in the North don't know how deeply involved the North was in slavery,” he says, adding that Illinois “had one of the worst black codes in America. People don't know that. . . . Black people were hunted like beasts of the field on the streets of Chicago, with Lincoln's support.”
“”“Is that clear enough for you?”
I said that Lincoln cared about negroes, and proved my point. I never said he was in favor of racial equality, which would in any case have been political suicide in his era.
“Lincoln was a 1860’s version of Hitler”
It wasn’t Lincoln who issued an order that certain enemy soldiers would be shot when captured, due to their race. That was Jefferson Davis. Perhaps the hatred that certain people feel towards Lincoln is a mirror onto their own hearts.
I’m inclined to say that slavery, being a historical accident with centuries of precedent, was not the fault of the South. However a century of Jim Crow racism was inflicted on this nation primarily by Southern racists. One of the dreadful results of this century of manifest injustice is the election of Barack Obama as POTUS.
Yes, only a precursor of Hitler could possibly write something like this:
"Amidst this prospect of evil, I am glad to see one good effect. It has brought the necessity of some plan of general emancipation & deportation more home to the minds of our people than it has ever been before. Insomuch, that our Governor has ventured to propose one to the legislature. This will probably not be acted on at this time. Nor would it be effectual; for while it proposes to devote to that object one third of the revenue of the State, it would not reach one tenth of the annual increase. My proposition would be that the holders should give up all born after a certain day, past, present, or to come, that these should be placed under the guardianship of the State, and sent at a proper age to S. Domingo. There they are willing to receive them, & the shortness of the passage brings the deportation within the possible means of taxation aided by charitable contributions."
I mean imagine, how can someone talk about emancipating the slaves and forcing them out of the country? Only a Hitler could possibly take a position like that. Only someone who was pure evil could possibly sign on to such a plan. Damn and double-damn that Abraham Lin....oh wait....that quote wasn't from Lincoln...it was...could it be...yes, a letter from Thomas Jefferson, written in December 1820 to Albert Gallatin.
Damn. You must really hate Jefferson now, what with him supporting deportation and colonization and all.