Lincoln clearly declares you wrong. In his last speech he makes mention of people who were discussing it, and that had criticized him in regards to the matter. Lincoln says that you are wrong.
President Lincoln might well have become a strong proponent of universal black sufferage since he was already a supporter of the concept of sufferage to begin with.
LOL - that's excuse making that completely ignores the historical record. The man separated himself from those that DID advocate total suffrage. Lincoln's stated opinion just days before he died was that personally, he preferred exclusionary and conditional versions of black suffrage. He said that in response to some of his political opponents who favored full rights for blacks, and he said it in order to separate himself from them and their views.
As a stronger leader than Johnson, he may have been able to block the worst aspects of Reconstruction from the Congress, and talk the southern states out of the worst of their black laws.
Lincoln's avowed positions on 'reconstruction' would have ruined him. The radicals would have destroyed him for his leniency, just as they did Johnson. Withhout the bullet from Booth, there would be no temple for The Lincoln, he would have ended up a disgraced and impeached president by the time they got through with him, and things would have happened pretty much the way they did. If Lincon could have destroyed them first, then history may have been different.
You've been reading DiLorenzo again, haven't you? It was the southern states who perfected them long before the rebellion, and who perpetuated them into the last half of the 20th century.
LOL - I got that info from an African-American History webpage. Northern racism is a well documented fact of history. Except by hatemongering revisionist liars like that idiot Jaffa, of course.
In 1805 the Virginia legislature passed a piece of legislation called the Virginia Manumission Law. That law required that any slave freed in Virginia had to leave the state within 12 months or else they could be sold back into slavery. The law proved so popular it was soon incorporated into the state Constitution. An 1822 Mississippi law required legislature approval for all acts of manumission regardless of reason. The Alabama legislature seriously debated a law that would allow the state to deport all free blacks to Africa and bill the county that they were living in for their passage. Every southern state passed a law at one time or another that forbade free blacks from moving into the state and South Carolina even had a law that prevented blacks and whites from looking out the same window. So please to parade that bullsh*t about the North inventing Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The North was far from perfect but the south came into their own bigotry all on their own.