The Augusta Courier

WHAT LINCOLN SAID:
June 26, 1857, at Springfield, Ill.:
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people at the idea of an indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races. A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation; but as immediate separation is impossible the next best thing . . . is to keep them apart where they are not already together.

Sept. 18, 1858, at Charleston, Ill.:
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

Aug. 21, 1858, at Ottawa, Ill.:
"I hold that a Negro is not and never ought to be a citizen of the United States. I hold that this government was made on the white basis, by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men and none others."

Aug. 14, 1862, to a deputation of free Negroes at Washington:
"Even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with white people . . . On this broad continent not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours. Go where you are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you . . . I cannot alter it if I would."