[drew]

I think this spells it out pretty clearly:

"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition."
– Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Hamilton Stephens.

[central_va]

My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,—to their own native land. But a moment’s reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible.[13

             -- Abe Lincoln The Great Emancipator

[dayglored]

> I think this spells it out pretty clearly:

Got a link for that quote? I'd like to read it in its entirety. Sounds interesting.