Abraham Lincoln Racist
Leon Puissegur
I watched a program the other day about Abraham Lincoln. I could not believe my ears about how much good this man was supposed to have done. He was supposed to have “freed” the slaves, but facts prove this to be the biggest lie of all time. Abraham Lincoln NEVER freed a single slave during his entire time in office. As a matter of fact, Lincoln was and perhaps still is the biggest RACIST ever born in the United States. Now that I have your undivided attention I will carry on with just some quotes and letters by Abraham Lincoln from a book, “Lincoln Selected Speeches and Writings.
On October 16, 1854 Lincoln gave a speech on the Kansas – Nebraska Act. In it, he made the following statement, “What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the greater mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded.”
Could this be Lincoln, the “Great Emancipator”? Yes it is and this is just one of many statements that, had they been said in today’s’ arena, he would never had been elected to anything, due to his “RACIST” attitude. But wait, it gets better, or worse, whichever you may consider.
On June 26, 1857 Lincoln stated the following in his speech on the Dred Scott decision, “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.”
Lincoln suggesting to send the African back to his native land? Yes, and he did not try to hide it. Could you imagine the flack he would catch to even consider such a motive these days? He would most certainly have spent his last day as any kind of representative at that point. To think people still honor him and call him a great man; my how we have been misled.
On August 21, 1858 Lincoln debated Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois. During the debate Lincoln stated, “I will say here while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position."
Can you believe this? Lincoln actually said the white man should be superior to the black man. How far would he have gotten in today’s world with words like that? And to think that he has had a monument made at the seat of our federal government to honor him... I used to wonder why these speeches and these lines were never taught in school, and then I realized that if they were, Lincoln would not have been honored as he is today.
In Charleston, Illinois on September 18, 1858 during the Fourth Lincoln/Douglas debate Lincoln stated, “I will say then that I am not, nor ever 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 to 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 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.”
No matter how many times you look at this passage, it explodes with racism. Here is supposed to be an all-great man, yet he loudly exclaimed, “the superior position assigned to the white race.” I do not care who you are or where you come from, in today’s world anyone making a statement even remotely this bad would be chased out of the place he gave the speech and probably be brought to court to face charges. Lincoln may have done a few good things, but race relations was not one of them. As a matter of fact, he did few, if any, good things.
In July of 1862, Lincoln spoke of moving blacks out of the country. He stated the following, “I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually. Room in South America for colonization, can be obtained cheaply, and in abundance; and when numbers shall be large enough to be company and encouragement for one another, the free people will not be so reluctant to go.”
Lincoln actually did move some blacks to South America and he saw to some being moved to Liberia in Northern Africa. This is a man that was supposed to have “freed” the slaves. Now I believe we can look at that infamous “Emancipation Proclamation.”
On September 22, 1862 Abraham Lincoln gave the “Emancipation Proclamation”. This proclamation was supposed to have freed the slaves, but it did not free a single slave North or South. The part of the proclamation which must be read carefully shows that Lincoln did not free any slaves in areas he actually had control over.
It reads, “Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander In Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first Day of January, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and in accordance with my so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, towit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana,(except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St.Johns, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, 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 Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk & Portsmouth); and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.”
The very last part of this “Proclamation” states that all those excepted counties, parishes, and cities were to be “…left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.” This makes the statement that those that were excepted were to remain as they were prior to the “proclamation”. Lincoln did not free a single slave in the North nor did he free any slaves anywhere else. The Proclamation was not worth the paper it was written on. Lincoln had no control over the States mentioned and he refused to free slaves in states he had control over. He even mentioned West Virginia, which was made a state illegally. West Virginia was a part of Virginia until 1862 when Lincoln made it a state, he did this even though “West Virginia” was a slave holding area. Many may say that he meant to free all slaves, but in a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase on September 2, 1863 Abraham Lincoln CONFIRMS that the “Emancipation Proclamation” had no legal or constitutional grounds.
He stated, “The original proclamation has no constitutional or legal justification, except as a military measure.”
Abraham Lincoln was NOT “The Great Emancipator.” He did not free a single slave North, South, East, or West. Lincoln did that only to keep the British and French from joining the South. He had no INTENTION whatsoever to free any slave at all. Abraham Lincoln was not only a RACIST, he was a liar too.
I don't disagree with you, I just didn't want to get into it on this thread since it started out talking about what happened 40 or 50 years ago.
