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>As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

- Letter to Joshua F. Speed 1855

>I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

- Speech on the Dredd Scott decision 1857

>As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

- Definition of Democracy 1858

>"We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed."

- Speech to the Ohio regiment 1864

Conversely we have the quote in OP, which directly contradicts these, yet rather than showing any sort of change in character it instead comes from the same time period as most of them. What did Lincoln himself think? Who the fuck knows. He wasn't even consistent about sending the blacks somewhere else. He pretty much abandoned the entire idea before the civil war even ended. He established one colony in Haiti, and he took all the niggers that he sent there back to the US when it failed. And never raised the issue again. Doesn't bode too well for him.

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed