Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

To: Non-Sequitur; lentulusgracchus
Knob bobber,Non-Sequitur

"But nowhere near as racist as Bobby Lee, Jeff Davis, Tommy Jackson, and the rest of the confederate White Supremacist league."

----------------------------------------------------

What!?

Your Hero, Lincoln

Quote

I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization. In this view, I recommend the adoption of the following resolution and articles amendatory to the Constitution of the United States ... "Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons, with their consent, at any place or places without the United States." Applications have been made to me by many free Americans of African descent to favor their emigration, with a view to such colonization as was contemplated in recent acts of Congress ... Several of the Spanish American republics have protested against the sending of such colonies [settlers] to their respective territories ... Liberia and Haiti are, as yet, the only countries to which colonists of African descent from here could go with certainty of being received and adopted as citizens ... Their old masters will gladly give them wages at least until new laborers can be procured; and the freedmen, in turn, will gladly give their labor for the wages, till new homes can be found for them, in congenial climes, and with people of their own blood and race.

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves ...

737 posted on 04/21/2010 1:58:09 PM PDT by Idabilly (Oh, southern star how I wish you would shine.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 733 | View Replies ]


To: Idabilly
Your Hero, Lincoln

Your hero, Davis and Lee believed blacks belonged in slavery. Davis said they were suited for nothing else and Lee said that slavery was the best situation for blacks to be in. You don't find that to be just a weeee bit racist?

745 posted on 04/21/2010 2:26:20 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 737 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson