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To: Non-Sequitur

He wanted to deport their as*ses and he also stated they were not to be equal. Go ahead and deny that.


98 posted on 12/12/2009 3:50:51 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: mojitojoe
He wanted to deport their as*ses and he also stated they were not to be equal. Go ahead and deny that.

The first is easy to deny. Lincoln believed in and supported voluntary emigration. In that he was no different than men like Robert Lee, James Monroe, or John Breckernridge. Given the alternatives - a life of bondage in the south or facing the virulent racism that existed throughout the South and which was almost as bad in the North - where was that such an evil project?

As for the second, Lincoln also said that blacks were the equal of whites in a number of important ways. As he put it, "...in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, (the black man) is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Can you provide a quote from any Southern leader indicating that the black man was his equal in any way? Of course you can't.

99 posted on 12/13/2009 4:34:00 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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