OK. Here ya go:
'I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, ---that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois", 8 Sep 1858, Vol. III, pp. 145-146.'Judge Douglas has said to you that he has not been able to get from me an answer to the question whether I am in favor of negro-citizenship. So far as I know, the Judge never asked me the question before. He shall have no occasion to ever ask it again, for I tell him very frankly that I am not in favor of negro citizenship.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois", 8 Sep 1858, Vol. III, p. 179.'I have all the while maintained, that in so far as it should be insisted that there was an equality between the white and black races that should produce a perfect social and political equality, it was an impossibility. This you have seen in my printed speeches, and with it I have said, that in their right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," as proclaimed in that old Declaration, the inferior races are our equals.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Fifth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at Galesburg, Illinois", 7 Oct 1858, Vol. III, pp. 221-222.'There is a physical difference between the two which in my judgment will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy P. Basler, ed., "Speech at Columbus, Ohio", 16 Sep 1859, Vol. III, p. 402.' But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race. ... The aspiration of men is to enjoy equality with the best when free, but on this broad continent, not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes", 14 Aug 1862, Vol. V, p. 372.'The compromises of the constitution we must all stand by, but where is the justness of extending the institution [slavery] to compete with white labor and thus to degrade it? Is it not rather our duty to make labor more respectable by preventing all black competition, especially in the territories?'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Speech at Carlinville, Illinois", 31 Aug 1858, Vol. III, p. 79.'Then I say if this principle is established [the spread of slavery should be restricted], that there is no wrong in slavery, and whoever wants it has a right to have it, is a matter of dollars and cents, a sort of question as to how they shall deal with brutes, that between us and the negro here there is no sort of question, but that at the South the question is between the negro and the crocodile.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Speech at Columbus, Ohio", 16 Sep 1859, Vol. III, p. 423.'Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Speech at Peoria, Illinois", 16 Oct 1854, Vol. II, p. 267.
And here's a freebie, his attitude towards Mexicans:
Glad I could help.'I understand that the people of Mexico are most decidedly a race of mongrels. I understand that there is not more than one person there out of eight who is pure white, and I suppose from the Judge's previous declaration that when we get Mexico or any considerable portion of it, that he will be in favour of these mongrels settling the question, which would bring him somewhat into collision with his horror of an inferior race.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Fifth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, at Galesburg, Illinois", 7 Oct 1858, Vol. III, p. 235.
And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.'
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed., "Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois", 8 Sep 1858, Vol. III, pp. 145-146.
More Lincoln:
"My friends, I have detained you about as long as I desired to do, and I have only to say, let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man; this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position; discarding our standard that we have left us. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal."
A. Lincoln, 7/10/58
None of the quotes you provide sustain an idea that Lincoln thought blacks were inherently inferior to whites. In this same time frame -- at another of the Douglas debates -- Lincoln indicated he didn't know if blacks were inferior or not.
Lincoln is not on the record saying blacks were racially inferior to blacks and you cannot put him there.
He -is- on the record as saying that blacks were just as good as soldiers as any and that there was no man in the country whose opinion he valued more than that of a black man -- Frederick Douglass.
In the famous Greeley letter that the neo-reb fringe loves to quote partially, Lincoln said that he was willing to adopt new views as soon as they were shown to be true views, and, while it is certainly true that he said in 1858 he was not willing to make voters or jurors of blacks -- in 1865, he was.
Walt
You're glad you didn't have to quote anything from the last 5-6 years of Lincoln's life.
"Recognizing me, even before I reached him, he exclaimed, so that all around could hear him, "Here comes my friend Douglass." Taking me by the hand, he said, "I am glad to see you. I saw you in the crowd to-day, listening to my inaugural address; how did you like it?" I said, "Mr. Lincoln, I must not detain you with my poor opinion, when there are thousands waiting to shake hands with you." "No, no," he said, "you must stop a little, Douglass; there is no man in the country whose opinion I value more than yours. I want to know what you think of it?" I replied, "Mr. Lincoln, that was a sacred effort." "I am glad you liked it!" he said; and I passed on, feeling that any man, however distinguished, might well regard himself honored by such expressions, from such a man."
3/4/65
"it is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers."
4/11/65