Sorry; hadn’t been able to reply to this until now. Let’s see…
> “What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?” **~ Andrew Jackson**; [speech](https://archive.md/CYJuO) to Congress; December 6, 1830
> “As [Indios] are extremely apt to get drunk, and, when so, are very quarrelsome and disorderly, we strictly forbade the selling any liquor to them; and when they complain’d of this restriction, we told them that if they would continue sober during the treaty, we would give them plenty of rum when business was over. They promis’d this, and they kept their promise, because they could get no liquor, and the treaty was conducted very orderly, and concluded to mutual satisfaction. They then claim’d and received the rum; this was in the afternoon: they were near one hundred men, women, and children, and were lodg’d in temporary cabins, built in the form of a square, just without the town. In the evening, hearing a great noise among them, the commissioners walk’d out to see what was the matter. We found they had made a great bonfire in the middle of the square; they were all drunk, men and women, quarreling and fighting. Their dark-colour’d bodies, half naked, seen only by the gloomy light of the bonfire, running after and beating one another with firebrands, accompanied by their horrid yellings, form’d a scene the most resembling our ideas of hell that could well be imagin’d; there was no appeasing the tumult, and we retired to our lodging. At midnight a number of them came thundering at our door, demanding more rum, of which we took no notice. The next day, sensible they had misbehav’d in giving us that disturbance, they sent three of their old counselors to make their apology. The orator acknowledg’d the fault, but laid it upon the rum; and then endeavoured to excuse the rum by saying, ‘The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use, and whatever use he design’d anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum,’ he said, ‘Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,’ and it must be so.” **~ Benjamin Franklin**; autobiography, [p. 159](https://archive.ph/jEYRJ)
> “To be consistent with existing and probably unalterable prejudices in the US, freed blacks ought to be permanently removed beyond the region occupied or allotted to a white population.” **~ James Madison**; [letter](https://archive.fo/SOZ1L) to Robert J. Evans; June 15, 1819
> “I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races–that **I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, no 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 disallowing them from 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**.” **~ Abraham Lincoln**; [4th debate](https://archive.fo/pP8mC) with Stephen Douglass; 1860
> “If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. It is exceedingly important that we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as white men, and not those who have been systematically oppressed. There is much to encourage you. **For the sake of your race you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people**… The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time… They are not all American colonists, or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have been sent thither from this country. Many of the original settlers have died, yet, like people elsewhere, their offspring outnumber those deceased. The question is **if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there?**” **~ Abraham Lincoln**; Address on Colonization to Deputation of Negroes; [August 14, 1862](https://archive.md/4DsVT)
And the proceedings of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, of course…
> “The first amendment is to section one, declaring that “all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.” I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been so fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. **This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens,** who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.” **~ The Congressional Globe**, [p. 2890](https://web.archive.org/web/20210203073318/https://www.loc.gov/law/help/citizenship/pdf/congressglobe_2890.pdf); May 30, 1866
> “What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?” **~ Andrew Jackson**; [speech](https://archive.md/CYJuO) to Congress; December 6, 1830
> “As [Indios] are extremely apt to get drunk, and, when so, are very quarrelsome and disorderly, we strictly forbade the selling any liquor to them; and when they complain’d of this restriction, we told them that if they would continue sober during the treaty, we would give them plenty of rum when business was over. They promis’d this, and they kept their promise, because they could get no liquor, and the treaty was conducted very orderly, and concluded to mutual satisfaction. They then claim’d and received the rum; this was in the afternoon: they were near one hundred men, women, and children, and were lodg’d in temporary cabins, built in the form of a square, just without the town. In the evening, hearing a great noise among them, the commissioners walk’d out to see what was the matter. We found they had made a great bonfire in the middle of the square; they were all drunk, men and women, quarreling and fighting. Their dark-colour’d bodies, half naked, seen only by the gloomy light of the bonfire, running after and beating one another with firebrands, accompanied by their horrid yellings, form’d a scene the most resembling our ideas of hell that could well be imagin’d; there was no appeasing the tumult, and we retired to our lodging. At midnight a number of them came thundering at our door, demanding more rum, of which we took no notice. The next day, sensible they had misbehav’d in giving us that disturbance, they sent three of their old counselors to make their apology. The orator acknowledg’d the fault, but laid it upon the rum; and then endeavoured to excuse the rum by saying, ‘The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use, and whatever use he design’d anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum,’ he said, ‘Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,’ and it must be so.” **~ Benjamin Franklin**; autobiography, [p. 159](https://archive.ph/jEYRJ)
> “To be consistent with existing and probably unalterable prejudices in the US, freed blacks ought to be permanently removed beyond the region occupied or allotted to a white population.” **~ James Madison**; [letter](https://archive.fo/SOZ1L) to Robert J. Evans; June 15, 1819
> “I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races–that **I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, no 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 disallowing them from 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**.” **~ Abraham Lincoln**; [4th debate](https://archive.fo/pP8mC) with Stephen Douglass; 1860
> “If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. It is exceedingly important that we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as white men, and not those who have been systematically oppressed. There is much to encourage you. **For the sake of your race you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people**… The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time… They are not all American colonists, or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have been sent thither from this country. Many of the original settlers have died, yet, like people elsewhere, their offspring outnumber those deceased. The question is **if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there?**” **~ Abraham Lincoln**; Address on Colonization to Deputation of Negroes; [August 14, 1862](https://archive.md/4DsVT)
And the proceedings of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, of course…
> “The first amendment is to section one, declaring that “all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.” I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been so fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. **This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens,** who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.” **~ The Congressional Globe**, [p. 2890](https://web.archive.org/web/20210203073318/https://www.loc.gov/law/help/citizenship/pdf/congressglobe_2890.pdf); May 30, 1866