[Aurelius]

" "When asked by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stepehens at the 1865 Hampton Roads 'peace' conference what would become of the freedmen without property or education, Lincoln sarcastically recited the words to a popular minstrel song, 'root, hog or die.'"

"A Constitutional View of the Late War between the States,"Stephens , 1870, Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.:

The Great Emancipator

I have the book, so I will try to find the passage and provide any relevent larger context.

[Non-Sequitur]

I have the book, so I will try to find the passage and provide any relevent larger context.

If you don't mind. All you've provided so far is the same quote from the same website twice. All that website does is provide a third party version of the Stephens quote, something you felt free to criticize in reply 57. The link I provided at least gives some context.