Completely untrue. As early as 1864 he was suggesting that Louisiana may want to give some blacks the vote to a delegation representing that states loyal government. As late as April 11th Lincoln said publicly, "I would myself prefer that [suffrage] were now conferred on the very intelligent, and those who served our cause as soldiers..." He, like many others, realized that if the freed slaves did not get the vote then they would have no means of protecting their rights from the white populace.
He also in his first inaugural said he would support a constitutional amendment forever preserving the right to own slaves in the states it then existed.
Because it limited slavery to where it existed, and protected the right of Congress to halt its expansion to the territories. The very reason why the Corwin Amendment was entirely unacceptable to the South.
“Completely untrue. As early as 1864 he was suggesting that Louisiana may want to give some blacks the vote to a delegation representing that states loyal government. As late as April 11th Lincoln said publicly, “I would myself prefer that [suffrage] were now conferred on the very intelligent, and those who served our cause as soldiers...” He, like many others, realized that if the freed slaves did not get the vote then they would have no means of protecting their rights from the white populace.”
What authority do you suppose he had to suggest that to a State that had already seceded? That is kind of like Obamao telling Israel who can live in Jerusalem neighborhoods. You probably think that is ok though.