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I took nothing out of context. The fact that Lincoln was restrained by logistics does not alter the fact that he was a devout racist.
>>>Now, show me one political leader, north or south, who was on record as being more “enlightened” on the subject of race.<<<
How about any northern congressman who was an abolishionist? Lincoln was no abolishionist. Calling Lincoln an abolishionist would be like calling B. Hussein Obama a tax cutter.
Right, so when South Carolina, in it's "Declaration of Causes" said:
"A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the states north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common government, because he has declared that that "government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction."they didn't know what they were talking about, huh?