Actually, it is Lincoln's own words. Further, it is consistant with Lincoln's other statements on Blacks. For the uninformed, I would reccommend, "American Ceaser", and the excellent works of Dr. Clyde Wilson.
The Empire can not stand to see their gods attacked.
For Southern Independence
Larry Salley
Lincoln is using them to show that the humanity and equality of the blacks was in the American mind from the founding.
Let me quote a little more from Jefferson, the author of the Declaration:
"Nothing is more certainly written in the in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power... [here follows the rest of DiLorenzo's quote] ..."
In other words, Lincoln is quoting Jefferson, DiLorenzo is wrong, and Jefferson, though advocating separation and colonization, is doing so in the name of equality and freedom.
And all the parts of the Cooper Institute Speech in which Lincoln speaks in his own voice say not a word about colonization or filling the territories with whites.
For God's sake, don't spread falsehoods, and don't trust those who do.
Richard Ferrier,
President,
The careful scholar who wrote this book ascribed to Lincoln a spurious quote from Tom Dixon's novel, The Clansman.
I would recommend it to those who wish to be uninformed. And, in the same spirit, I would recommend DiLorenzo's screed.
Cheers,
Richard F.
In the language of Mr. Jefferson, uttered many years ago, "It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation, and deportation, peaceably, and in such slow degrees, as that the evil will wear off insensibly; and their places be, pari passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up."