[WhiskeyPapa]

You got a list of anybody in the North that wanted negro equality?

No. No you don't. Not even Lincoln.

President Lincoln wrote to the new governor of Louisiana in 1864, Michael Hahn, asking him to consider a provision in the new LA state constitution to allow blacks to vote. President Lincoln said this would help keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.

A year later, President Lincoln came out publicly in support of the franchise for black Union soldiers. That is why Booth shot him.

It is also a simple fact of history that blacks -could- vote in five northern states in 1860.

Walt

[samuel_adams_us]

Booth didn't shoot Lincoln for that reason, Booth was put up to shooting Lincoln by the wealthy. Booth rode across the Potomac that night and actually passed through the guards on the bridge as he had permission to do so from the army, how else could he have made it into Virginia when the capitol was under martial law.

[Corin Stormhands]

It is also a simple fact of history that blacks -could- vote in five northern states in 1860.

While I am not surpised, you missed my point.

I know a lot of racists who don't mind blacks having the right to vote as long as they stay on their side of the tracks. I grew up with people saying "they're just as good as anybody else." Those same people wouldn't let an African-American in their homes, unless it was as domestic help.

That attitude is prevalent in the North as much as it is in the South. Busing told us that much.

Like I said there were advocates for freedom and voting rights.

There were no advocates for next door neighbors.

THAT's my problem with yankees trying to portray all southernors as racists.