Abraham Lincoln, as cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham
Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University
Press:
"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 from 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."
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An address by Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26,
1857 [Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol II, pp 408-9, Basler,
ed.]:
"A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation,
but as immediate separation is impossible the next best thing is to keep
them apart where they are not already together. Such separation, if ever
affected at all, must be effected by colonization The enterprise is a difficult
one, but 'where there is a will there is a way:' and what colonization needs
now is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral and self-interest.
Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same time,
favorable to, or at least not against our interest, to transfer the African
to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the
task may be."
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"The Great Proclamation" (1960), Commager, Henry Steele;
"Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation" (1964), Donovan, Frank; "The
Emancipation Proclamation" (1964), Franklin, John Hope, ed.
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:
Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued
by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the
following, to wit:
"That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as
slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof
shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward,
and forever free...
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines,
Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone,
Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New
Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as
West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton,
Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of
Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the
present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued."
NOTE - Slavery was NOT abolished in one
Confederate (Tennessee) and four Union states (Maryland, Delaware. Kentucky,
West Virginia, and Missouri).
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Abraham Lincoln 1859 [Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol
III, pp 399, Basler, ed.]
"Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great
enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves
to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?"
--
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"Constitutional Problems under Lincoln," James G. Randall,
1951, Urbana: University of Illinois Press:
"Among the unconstitutional and dictatorial acts performed by Lincoln
were initiating and conducting a war by decree for months without the consent
or advice of Congress; declaring martial law; confiscating private property;
suspending habeas corpus; conscripting the railroads and censoring telegraph
lines; imprisoning as many as 30,000 Northern citizens without trial;
deporting a member of Congress, Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, after Vallandigham
- a fierce opponent of the Morrill tariff -- protested imposition of an
income tax at a Democratic Party meeting in Ohio; and shutting down hundreds
of Northern newspapers."
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The Glittering Illusion: English Sympathy for the Southern Confederacy,
Sheldon Vanauken, 1989, Washington, DC: Regnery/Gateway.
"...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as
proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to
free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal'
Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied
by United States troops, such as New Orleans."
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The Confederate War, Gary Gallagher, 1998, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press:
"The Emancipation Proclamation caused a desertion crisis in the
United States Army. At least 200,000 Northern soldiers deserted; another
120,000 evaded conscription; and another 90,000 Northern men fled to Canada
to evade the draft, while thousands more hid in the mountains of central
Pennsylvania 'where they lay beyond the easy reach of enrolling officers.'"
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Abraham Lincoln, as cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham
Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.,: Rutgers University
Press:
"Send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But free them and
make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not
admit this."
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Abraham Lincoln, as cited in "Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and
Writings," Roy Basler, ed. 1946, New York: Da Capo:
"Some ten years later, in his December 1, 1862, message to Congress,
Lincoln reiterated that 'I cannot make it better known than it already is,
that I strongly favor colonization."
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"A Constitutional View of the Late War between the States,"
Alexander Stephens , 1870, Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.:
"When asked by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stepehens at
the 1865 Hampton Roads 'peace' conference what would become of the freedmen
without property or education, Lincoln sarcastically recited the words to
a popular minstrel song, 'root, hog or die.'"
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"Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation," Ira
Berlin, 1987, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press:
"In an April 16, 1863, letter to the War Department regarding the
fate of ex-slaves should emancipation become a reality, Lincoln wrote, ''They
had better be set to digging their sustinence out of the ground.'"
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History of the administration of President Lincoln: including his
speeches, letters, addresses, proclamations, and messages. With a preliminary
sketch of his life; Raymond, Henry J.; 1864, New York, J. C. Derby &
N. C. Miller, pp. 213
Pres. Lincoln's response of September 13, 1862, to a call for a General
Emancipation:
"Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution
in the rebel States? And what reason is there to think it would have any
greater effect upon the slaves than the late law of Congress, which I approved,
and which offers protection and freedom to the slaves of rebel masters who
come within our lines? Yet I cannot learn that the law has caused a single
slave to come over to us."
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Overland Monthly and Out West magazine/Volume 9, Issue 52, San
Francisco, 1887, pp. 540, 541 - "An Episode of the Civil War,"
John T. Doyle
"At another time, Mr. Lincoln publicly recommended Central America
to a delegation of blacks who waited on him, as suited by climate and so
forth to colonization by their people.
In the fall of 1862 there appeared in New York a certain Mr. Koch, with
a queer story and a queer project...he had conceived the project of taking
to Santo Domingo a colony of blacks from the United States, procuring a
grant of land, and settling them on it, to raise cotton.
Mr. Lincoln was entirely captivated by it; ...The President made a contract
with him (Koch) for the transportation of the first colony of blacks, four
hundred in number, to his (Koch's) island of La Veche, at the price, I think,
of $100 per head; to be paid, one half when the colonists had embarked,
and the other half when they were safely landed on the island.
Before many months were over, the President was constrained as a matter
of mere humanity to send a vessel of war after the poor fellows, and the
remainder of them was brought back and landed in Boston.
The last thing I heard of them was a public meeting under violent anti-slavery
auspices to denounce the brutal and inhuman conduct of President Lincoln,
in sending these poor men into exile; and one or two of the negroes themselves
appeared at the meeting in support of the resolutions!
John T. Doyle"
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"Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men," Jeffrey Rogers
Hummel; Laissez Faire Books
"The Lincoln Administration imprisoned at least 14,000 (Northern)
civilians throughout the course of the war. ... The federal government simultaneously
monitored and censored both the mails and telegraphs. ... It also suppressed
newspapers. Over three hundred, including the Chicago Times, the New York
World, and the Philadelphia Evening Journal, had to cease publication for
varying periods."
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"Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men," Jeffrey Rogers
Hummel; Laissez Faire Books
Former Democratic Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, running
for governor, "delivered a speech in May 1863 that accused the President
of unnecessarily prolonging the conflict. The Union commander in Ohio"
-- never a war zone -- "rousted Vallandigham from his home at night
and jailed him. A military court handed down a sentence of confinement for
the war's duration, but public indignation forced Lincoln to commute the
sentence to exile behind Confederate lines."
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