Randall, at one place concludes that "...it would appear that Lincoln was closer to the Southern attitude concerning the Negro than to that of the abolitionist". p 163
This seems to me to have been a substantial misconception on Randall's part. I will try to explain why that may be at some point.
Randall, apparently nonplussed, does also note, without suggesting Lincoln's possible reasons for this, that Lincoln surprisingly made no effort apparently to communicate this wondrous and surprising reality to the South either before or during the presidential election of 1860. p. 181.
Do you think that maybe these two observations are just a little suspect regarding Lincoln's actual views and program?
After all, it would have been an easy, and a very helpful and important, thing at that time for him to have thought to do, given his " a house divided cannot stand" and all of that, to have assured, at least a little, the Southerners planning to secede if he were elected, that he was in a sense their brother in his thinking about the subordinate place of the negro in the universe.
After all, it would have been an easy, and a very helpful and important, thing at that time for him to have thought to do, given his " a house divided cannot stand" and all of that, to have assured, at least a little, the Southerners planning to secede if he were elected, that he was in a sense their brother in his thinking about the subordinate place of the negro in the universe.
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