My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If
I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would do it.
-Abraham Lincoln (1861)
"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."
An address by Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857 [Collected Works of Abraham
Lincoln, Vol II, pp 408-9, Basler, ed.]:
"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."
Abraham Lincoln, as cited in "Abraham Lincoln: His
Speeches and Writings," Roy Basler, ed. 1946, New York: Da Capo:
"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."
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?"
Abraham Lincoln, as cited in "The Collected Works of
Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press:
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