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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Mentor Association (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: (New York) : Mentor Association, Inc.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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avery was a curse, but that he saw why It was a curse; and uponthat bedrock of conviction he rested. Granting that slavery was wrong, thenupon what principles were white and blackpeople to live together in the same commu-nity.? Most of the intense abolitionistsfirmly believed that the negro was simply ablack white man, who required only properopportunity to show those qualities of con-tinuous virtue, reason, and thrift which weresupposed to characterize the average whiteman. Lincoln did not accept that abolitiontenet. No man was more intent upon stayingthe progress of slavery; but his aim at thattime was to do what could be done, whichwas to check the spread of slavery. Theabolitionists to the end of their relations withhim thought he was not one of themselves. Nevertheless, Lincoln had to have sometheory of the relation of the races. Ina Chicago speech he made a powerfuland unanswerable reply to the argumentusually summed up In the phrase, Do youwant your daughter to marry a nigger.?
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LINCOLN SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED B R H M I N O N I protest now and forever against that counterfeit logic which pre-sumes that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I do neces-sarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have herfor either. And elsewhere, in one of the noblest sentences that evercame from Lincolns lips, There is no reason in the world why the negrois not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration ofIndependence,—the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.I hold that he is as much entitled to these as a white man. I agree withJudge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects,—certainly not incolor; perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in theright to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, whichhis own hand earns he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every liv-ing man. Slavery was not the onlyquestion of a free governmentthat troubled Lincolns mind.His

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