Abraham Lincoln said some amazing things, and this statement, made in 1858, is quite interesting. "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway 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, not 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 forever 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. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything."
How often does the quote above appear in American History textbooks? Maybe it's time to pick up a copy of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods or Thomas DiLorenzo's The Real Lincoln.
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Slavery was actually in decline in the South as early as 1849, and would have been abandoned peacefully, as an uneconomic practice, just as it had been abandoned in over twenty slaveowning societies over the previous sixty years. When asked what should be done with former slaves, Lincoln was an enthusiastic supporter of a Negro Migration back to Africa, or at least to a place such as Haiti. Despite the myths that Lincoln believed in equality, his words tell a different tale:
"I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization. Eliminating every black person from American soil would be a glorious consummation."
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
"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. This they cannot be, to any considerable extent, if slavery shall be planted with them. Slave states are the places for poor white people to move from... New free states are the places for poor people to go and better their condition."
"Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit to this... We cannot, then, make them equals."
No other country in the world needed a war to free their slaves, and Europeans scoffed at the very notion that the War Between the States was being fought over emancipation. England had ended domestic slavery by 1840, peacefully, through compensated emancipation. As had Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Bolivia, French and Danish Colonies, Equador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Slavery was never an issue. Lincoln attacked the southern states to prevent them from seceding from the Union - as was their constitutional right - and for interfering with his plans for a centralized form of government. A central government patterned after Henry Clay's "American System" that would usher in "an era of good stealing", and allow a federal grab of power so feared by the framers of the constitution.
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