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Without being an enthusiast, Lincoln was a firm believer in colonization. He did not shut his eyes to its difficulties. 'If all earthly power were given me,' said he in debate with Douglas, 'I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia — to their own native land. But a moment's reflection would convince me that, whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible. If they were all landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days; and there are not surplus shipping and surplus money enough in the world to carry them there in many times ten days.' But he had also said a year before, 'The enterprise is a difficult one, but 'where there is a will, there is a way'; and what colonization needs most is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same time favorable to, or at least not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be."

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Very nice. Now show me a quote by Lincoln advocating deporting anyone much less blacks (much less “ALL blacks”).