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To: Non-Sequitur
I'm looking forward to all the posts from the southron contingent giving quotes from the Southern leaders that show their views towards blacks were much more compasionate and enlightened than were Lincoln's. Surely they must have some?

Sure, Jefferson Davis said blacks were indespensible -- well he used the term "african slaves", but you know what he meant.

Walt

14 posted on 12/11/2002 7:51:32 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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To: WhiskeyPapa
Sure, Jefferson Davis said blacks were indespensible

Unlike 'some' people we know

With his background as one of eleven managers of the Illinois State Colonization Society elected in 1857, Lincoln brought with him ideas about colonization. He supported the separation of the races for several reasons. He believed that blacks were inferior to whites and therefore not entitled to live in the same society as whites. He also rationalized that the removal of the black laborers would create a market for white laborers. "Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor." His basic motive, however, for his extensive efforts was to once again have a purely white America.
Lincoln's Colonization Efforts
Illinois History

It's a magazine apparently written by young people in Illinois for young people in Illinois so you should be able to understand all the words Walt. I'm just suprised that they actually let some of the truth out in the land of lincoln. Documentation provided at the bottom of the articles

16 posted on 12/11/2002 8:46:23 AM PST by billbears
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