Abe Lincoln Weighs In On Racial Equality-- Part 1

From Undercover Black Man: The Vice President and His Mulatto Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858."

Said the Great Emancipator in 1858 during a Lincoln-Douglas debate:  "I am not, nor have I ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races ... nor qualifying [negroes] to hold office nor to intermarry with white people ...."

He was referring to Richard M. Johnson's common law wife Julia Chinn who had been vice president under President Millard Fillmore

--Old Secesh