Abraham Lincoln Quotes
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment." 17 Mar. 1865. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 8, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 361.
He was opposed to the existing Fijian constitution but could not muster enough political support to amend it. He therefore stated that he would ignore it. He was overthrown by a coup several weeks later. One provision that was particularly vexing to him was communal voting, which reserved almost two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives for persons registered on ethnic electoral rolls; this tended to polarize the nation and gave foundation to politicians with extreme views
Johnson had a white mistress who accompanied him visibly at a time when Blacks were lynched for dating white women in many parts of the country. He was criticized heavily by whites for going with a white woman and many Blacks for the same.
Shortly after his presidential term expired:
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
