September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Newspaper, The Evening Post, Semi Weekly, New York, August 19, 1862, 4pp., 23" x 30," disbound, rough at spine, VG. From the front page, "THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. His Speech to a Deputation of Colored Men." Lincoln gave an audience to a committee of colored men at the White House advocating to them the benefits of Colonization. In part, "...You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think. Your race suffer very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. ... Nevertheless I repeat, without the institution of slavery and the colored race as a basis, the war could not have an existence. It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated. I know that there are free men among you, who, even if they could better their condition, are not as much inclined to go out of the country as those who, being slaves, could obtain their freedom on this condition. ...The place I am thinking about for a colony is in Central America. It is nearer to us than Liberia not much more than one fourth as far as Liberia, and within seven days' run by steamers. Unlike Liberia, it is a great line of travel--it is a highway.
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