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codetoad wrote “In fact, Lincoln himself had written and argued that free slaves should not be welcomed into the State of Illinois.”

Read Chapter 6: http://www.americascaesar.com/

And I quote from Lincoln in Sept. ‘58:
“I am not in favor of negro citizenship... Now my opinion is that the different States have the power to make a negro a citizen under the Constitution of the United States if they choose. The Dred Scott decision decides that they have not that power. If the State of Illinois had that power I should be opposed to the exercise of it.” (note 27)

Of course that was WAY back in ‘58 before he declared war on the South without Congress’s approval (something we’re all familiar with today) a few years later. So he must’ve had a change of heart, right? Except AFTER the glorious Emancipation Proclamation he goes on:

“I have urged the colonization of the negroes, and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan. There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks.
I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the negro into our social and political life as our equal....
Within twenty years we can peacefully colonize the negro and give him our language, literature, religion, and system of government under conditions in which he can rise to the full measure of manhood. This he can never do here. We can never attain the ideal union our fathers dreamed of, with millions of an alien, inferior race among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable.” (note 29)

Are we done playing kids games now? Please do your own homework and read the book, and see how many of your “facts” hold true.