That's what distinguishes you from the rest.
But warts and all he was a better man than his confederate counterpart, and his view towards blacks, while racist by todays standards, were still better than those of every southern leader.
Better than Stonewall Jackson? The man who established the "Lexington Colored Sabbath School" in 1855? A Sunday School where the participants were rewarded in their studies by the receipt of Testaments or a Bible - presented in a formal ceremony the 1st Sundy of each month. Jackson wouldn't be handing out those Testaments if the students didn't know how to read.
Lincoln wanted blacks repatriated out of the country. Jackson saw to their education and religious training. You have your opinion, I have mine.
President Lincoln wanted no more bloodshed and restoration of the Union.
He floated a lot of schemes to accomplish this. He never insisted that anyone be forced out of the country.
He advocated voting rights for blacks and said repeatedly that the Declaration of Independence applied to them.
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Yes. What a joke.
"Both Jeff Davis and Louis Wigfall, before resigning from the US Senate to go south, threatened the burning of Northern cities and the plunder of their populations as punishment (US Senate, CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE,10 Jan. 1861).
Stonewall Jackson urged the adoption of this policy (Henderson, STONEWALL JACKSON AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, London, 1898), adding that Confederate troops should fight under the "Black Flag" - no quarter, kill all prisoners - and proposing to Virginia Governor Letcher a week after Virginia's secession that he, Jackson, should set the example (Columbia, SC, DAILY SOUTH CAROLINIAN, 6 Feb. 1864).
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