[Grand Old Partisan]

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

[thatdewd]

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

Actually, he was a long-time advocate of colonization, just as he was a long-time opponent of slavery. He spoke very honestly about it in his debates with Douglas, for example.

[GOPcapitalist]

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

Not so. Lincoln had always supported colonization and believed in it till his dying day.