[thatdewd]

Lincoln was discussing the Emancipation Proclamation in the summer of 1862, only about 15 months after the south fired on Sumter.

And in it he wrote:

"...the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Governments existing there, will be continued."

Perhaps it should be called the "Colonization Proclamation".

[Non-Sequitur]

Perhaps it should be called the "Colonization Proclamation".

Note that your quote contained the phrase 'with their consent'. Of course the subject of this post, Jefferson Davis, had much better plans - leave them where they were, in bondage, or forced deportation without their consent to Central and South America. Lincoln's views were positively horrendous by comparison. </sarcasm>

[Grand Old Partisan]

He threw in the colonization part to mollify some of his critics.