A published economist’s comments on Abraham Lincoln…
“Lincoln was a master politician, which means he was a consummate conniver, manipulator, and liar.” —Economist Murray Rothbard, “America’s Two Just Wars: 1776 and 1861,” in “The Costs of War: American’s Pyrrhic Victories,” ed. John Denson (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1997), p. 131
The Editor of Ebony Magazine comments on Abraham Lincoln…
“On at least fourteen occasions between 1854 and 1860, Lincoln said unambiguously that he believed the Negro race was inferior to the White race. In Galesburg, he referred to ‘the inferior races.’ Who were ‘the inferior races’? African Americans, he said, Mexicans, who he called ‘mongrells,” and probably all colored people.” — Lerone Bennett, Jr., Editor of Ebony Magazine, “Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream” (Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 2000), p. 132
How Honest Abe really felt about slavery… which begs the question: Was the Civil War really fought because Honest Abe was sympathetic to slaves, and wanted to free slaves? Let’s see what Honest Abe himself says about the subject…
“Negro equality? Fudge!” — Abraham Lincoln, Fragments: Notes for Speeches, Sept. 1859 (Vol. III)
“If I could save The Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it” — Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Horace Greeley
h/t Cliff M
Let’s be perfectly fair and complete here: Lincoln was an advocate, and a passionate one,. for the abolition of slavery. He believed that the Negro had the same rights as the white man, and he said so more than once. No, he did not believe in the absolute equality of the races — in that era, no one did. But he did believe in freedom for men of all races:
“I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. ” The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, “First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois” (August 21, 1858), p. 16.
Judge the man against his times, not ours.
Fair enough, sir. Please read the following and let’s discuss this further:
http://www.lib.niu.edu/2006/ih060934.html
http://www.thestainlessbanner.com/The_Stainless_Banner__Volume_3__Issue_9.pdf
https://ncrenegade.com//editorial/a-christian-viewpoint-on-slavery/
The Civil War was not about slavery, it was about economics. As the Congressional Record (Globe) outlined.
Whatever standards you choose, Lincoln must be judged traitor to the principles of American Revolution.
I recommend the following homework assignment:
The Real Lincoln … DiLorenzo
Lincoln Unmasked …DiLorenzo
Lincoln’s Marxists … Benson and Kennedy
“All we ask is to be let alone”
~ Jefferson Davis