[Notary Sojac]

Of course Lincoln said that. It was the conventional wisdom of his age. Unlike liberals, I don't expect that someone living in 1860 is evil because he doesn't believe exactly the same things I do today.

What Lincoln did say, I believe as part of that same speech, is (quoting roughly) "the negro has the same right to keep the bread earned by the sweat of his own labor, as do I and as does every other American."

That was good enough for 1860, and that statement was one hundred percent correct in 1700, in 1860, and today.

[AzaleaCity5691]

“the negro has the same right to keep the bread earned by the sweat of his own labor, as do I and as does every other American.”

You do of course realize that the same can be applied to the material value of the total sum of the property of the Southern slaveholders, right? That they have the right to keep the total montetary value of what they have too?

You have simply bolstered Paul’s argument with that quote.