In the 1850's there was talk about slavery, and today it is widely believed that the war was over slavery. That the north declared war on the South to free the Slaves. But that is far from the truth. Many people were against slavery, as am I. but the Law was not against it, and Lincoln was not against it. He said that he didnt believe in it, and I suppose he was telling the truth about that. But he understood the law, and felt that he had no right to interfere with that law Here is a quote from Lincoln. "If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation." -- July 6, 1852 - Eulogy on Henry Clay Lincoln wanted to see the slaves freed slowly, as to create no hardships, and to resettle them in their former homeland. The slaves were being freed by some of the slaveholders prior to the war, and I believe that in not so many years slavery would have been a thing of the past. Lincoln to Joshua Speed "You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it." -- August 24, 1855 - Letter to Joshua Speed I think Lincoln did not like slavery, but he had no love for the black people, I will give you quotes to prove this also. Lincoln to Horace Greely “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause." -- August 22, 1862 - Letter to Horace Greeley . In the September 18, 1858 debate, Lincoln said: 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 which I believe forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much 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”. The Civil War ended on the ninth of April 1865, Lincoln was killed on April the 14th, only five days after the war ended, but Lincoln had been making plans to deport the freed slaves. He had always believed that they should be returned to their own homeland. He believed that they should never have been brought to America. All peoples Need Hero's, But if the decendents of American Slavery wants to choose hero's, they need to look elswhere than Lincoln. Anything that he did that helped them, he did for other reasons. The Civil war, or War Of Northern Agression, was not about slavery. The Lincoln people put that spin on it when they thought it might be lost otherwise, and when they thought that England might Join forceses with the South, That is when, and why, The Amansipation Proclamation was handed down. That is why that at the end of the war Artical Thirteen was rewritten, and passed. That ammendment was about to be passed befor the war began, but it read quiet differently then. I will put it on another page. This page is getting too long. |