Archived Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes - Lincoln (quod.lib.umich.edu)
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Archived Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes - Lincoln (quod.lib.umich.edu)
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TLDR?
[–] TheDude2 [S] ago
Lincoln tries to use money provided by Congress to get blacks colonized somewhere else, per his own inclination.
And he blames the civil war on two races that can't get along.
" do not propose to discuss this, but to present it as a fact with which we have to deal. I cannot alter it if I would. It is a fact, about which we all think and feel alike, I and you. We look to our condition, owing to the existence of the two races on this continent. I need not recount to you the effects upon white men, growing out of the institution of Slavery. I believe in its general evil effects on the white race. See our present condition---the country engaged in war!---our white men cutting one another's throats, none knowing how far it will extend; and then consider what we know to be the truth. But for your race among us there could not be war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or the other. Nevertheless, I repeat, without the institution of Slavery and the colored race as a basis, the war could not have an existence."