[jsanders2001]

Good post. Now post it to the NAACP who hold Lincoln in such high regard.

[wideawake]

Lincoln's thinking on race changed significantly from 1847, when he defended a slaveowner's property rights in an Illinois court, to 1854, when he declared his opposition to the extension of slavery and moral acceptability of slavery as an institution, to 1862, when he decided that the time for the emancipation of traitors' slaves was justified, to 1863 when his conversations with Frederick Douglass and others convinced him of the justice of full enfranchisement.

Unlike many people, Lincoln had a strong faculty for absorbing and processing new information and for thinking things through beyond his first impressions or even his first analysis.

[DuncanWaring]

Now post it to the NAACP who hold Lincoln in such high regard.

"P.S. Lincoln was a Republican."

[djf]

Supposedly Lincoln signed and submitted to Congress the following amendment:

No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.

But it was never voted on or ratified...