So are you suggesting that what Jefferson Davis believed, that blacks were only fitted for servitude and that slavery was their only proper place in society, was more generous and more enlightened that Lincoln's views, colonization or not?
I'm just pointing out the fallacy of the lincoln is God argument. Maybe he did believe in freedom for the blacks, just apart from him and if he had to do anything about it, outside of this country. Which puts his whole 1854 speech into its true perspective instead of the revisionist ideal he didn't actually mean what he said.
It's exactly how liberals act today. Act on the injustice as long as that action doesn't effect them. Your hero could do that considering the Black Codes in the north already in place banning blacks from living there. They would have to stay in the South, or if he had his way, be forced back onto boats and shipped somewhere. And probably not first class either. Sounds like a real humanitarian to me. Too bad Nobel wasn't around to give him a medal