Prove it then. Quote Lincoln saying so much as one single word in repudiation of colonization.
Mitchell's position became a sinecure.
That's not what the documents say. AG Edward Bates very specifically says in his letter that Mitchell is to be retained to continue implementing colonization.
That's not what the documents say. AG Edward Bates very specifically says in his letter that Mitchell is to be retained to continue implementing colonization.
You don't have an interpretation, you have an anecdote.
As Non-Sequitur noted, if President Lincoln supported colonization late in his administration, where is the condemnation of that from people like Sumner and Douglass? It's not there, because it had become a non-issue.
President Lincoln supported voting rights for black soldiers and he never suggested that anyone be forced out of the country.
This is all so bizarre; President Lincoln's ideas were much advanced for the time, but he gets attacked.
Walt
Prove it then. Quote Lincoln saying so much as one single word in repudiation of colonization.
Show in his words after 1862 that he supported it.
There are none, it was a dead letter.
Refer to President Lincoln's letter to Governor Andrew of Massachsetts posted earlier in the thread. Giving premanent residence to blacks would relieve a very difficult point. President Lincoln knew blacks were going to be living in this country. He played the colonization card in 1862 and no one was buying it. That is why he supported voting rights for them.
Walt