[antinomian]

Did he? "...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."

Ha! Yeah except in order to excercise those rights they have to be deported to Africa.

[Non-Sequitur]

Ha! Yeah except in order to excercise those rights they have to be deported to Africa.

Not at all. Lincoln supported voluntary emigration, and had done so for much of his adult life. So what? In that he was no different than thousands of other influental Americans. Thomas Jefferson, Robert Lee, James Madison, James Monroe, John Breckenridge all supported emigration. Jefferson Davis, on the other hand, wanted blacks right where they were. As property.