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?
It is my contention that Lincoln, and many of his comrades, disliked slavery because he was a true believer in white separatism!! Yes, Slavery was a horrible evil—Same as compelling your obedience, as a rapacious army penetrates into the bosom of your State, carrying destruction and desolation before it-Enslaving a Southern people to a Centralized power they wanted to be free from!