From the book (Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Open Court Publishing, 1996, p. 116) comes this statement of Lincoln during the Lincoln/Douglas debates. The authors source is noted on p. 372 in endnote #15, which is The Lincoln Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text (New York: Harper-Collins, 1993), p. 189.
Douglas first says: "But for my own part, I do not regard the negro as my equal, and I positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever."
Lincoln responds: "I will say then, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way, the social and political eqalilty of the white and black races--that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, or having them to marry with white people.
"I will say in addition, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I suppose,will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality[;] and as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white man."
From the same book: (p. 210) "Southerners of course did not throw down their arms, and the President issued the final Emancipation Proclamation at the beginning of 1863. But it technically freed no slaves. As a war measure similar to that of the British during the American Revolution, the proclamation only applied to the areas still in rebellion. It did not emancipate any of the slaves in the four border states. Nor did it emancipate any slaves in those sections of the Confederacy that Union armies had already reconquered, including all of Tennessee and large portions of Virginia and Louisiana.
"The only slaves covered were the ones beyond the reach of Union authority. This anomaly inspired a cynical retort from Seward. 'We show our sympathy with slavery,' he stated the day after the proclamation was issued, 'by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.'
"The London Spectator dismissed the proclamatin because it liberated 'the enemy's slaves as it would the enemy's cattle, simply to weaken them...The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States."
The authors quote from the London Spectator he identifies in endnote #(14) p.378. It comes from (The Life of William H. Seward, Harper and Brothers, 1900, v. 2 p. 339.)
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