Sounds like Lincoln liked talking out both sides of his mouth!
“Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to
make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and
fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?”
“Such separation...must be effected by colonization...to transfer the
African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however
great the task may be.” From a speech delivered in Springfield, IL; 26
June 1857
August, 1862
“Why should people of your race be colonized, and where? Why should they leave this country? You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between any
other two races. Whether it is right or wrong, I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think. Your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while we suffer from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason, at least, why we should be separated.”
So wanting the blacks to stay in the country, in bondage, as property, for all time is OK but supporting voluntary emigration that would allow them to carve out a life of their own free from the racism that they faced in all parts of the country was evil? Why?