Licoln stated, "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together
there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having
the superior position assigned to the white race."
Of interest is the last line where Lincoln states that "any other man" would be in favor of having whites be superior. I guess Lincoln didn't consider black males to be "men".
So by that quote you have shown that Lincoln was no different than virtually anyone else in the U.S. at the time. But Lincoln had other beliefs, which he also expounded on in the Lincoln Douglas Debates. He also stated his belief that "...but I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man."
In that alone, Lincoln expressed a belief that was virtually unique among Northern politicians, and which was not shared by any southern leader.