[phi11yguy19]

"He was talked out of it. By freed black slaves who visited him in Washington during the war."

Lincoln on the EP:
I have urged the colonization of the negroes, and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan. There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the negro into our social and political life as our equal…
And so on...

AFTER the war, days before his assassination, speaking to Gen. Butler's (and can be found in Butler's book):
L: I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes"
B: Proposed deporting the freed slaves to Panama to dig a canal (decades before the canal project started)
L: "There is meat in that, General Butler, there is meat in that"

Do tell, where was that change of heart again? Or maybe tell me which part of that is "conjecture" that leads you to dismiss it as "ridiculous"

[driftless2]

Well, Lincoln was murdered shorty after the war, wasn’t he? So there’s absolutely no way of knowing what he would have done. The facts are he didn’t try to repatriate Blacks to Africa after meeting with a number of them. All else is baseless conjecture.

[manc]

this is interesting so could you please tell me where I can go and look and find these quotes.

[Sherman Logan]

Lincoln on the EP: I have urged the colonization of the negroes, and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan. There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the negro into our social and political life as our equal…

This quote is not legit. It is from the racist novel glorifying the KKK that was later made into Birth of a Nation.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Misattributed