"I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the black races which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man."
Makes you think twice about whether slavery was meant to end, eh. He said if he could save the Union without freeing a single slave he would do it.
Makes you think twice about whether slavery was meant to end, eh. He said if he could save the Union without freeing a single slave he would do it.