The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-01
Linco1n,s Political Opinions.


LincOIn's Political Opinions.
There is one charge brought against Mr.. |
I.incoln's political opinions, which, were it |
not that it is SO persistently and positively |
asserted by public journals, that should
kave some claims to candor and tru thful- |
ness would require no attention. How
often have We heard since the Chicago NOM
ination, that Mr. Lincoln and the party
whose leader he is, are in favor of negro
equality, of the admission of negroes to the
full rights of citizenship, of voting, holding
Office, sitting on juries, &c. Certainly the
party and its candidate should be judged by
the publicly expressed opinions and acts of
that candidate, and TO these we ask the at
tention of our readers.
At Columbus, Ohio, in September last, he
read from one of his speeches, as follows:
Now, gentlemen, don't want to read
at any greater length, but this is the true
complexion of all | have ever said in regard
to the institution of slavery and the black
race. This is the whole of it, and anything
that argues me into his idea of perfect So
cial and political equality with the negro, is
but speciOus and fantastic arrangement OF
words, by which man can prove horse
chestnut to be chestnut horse. | will say
here, while upon this subject, that have no
purpose directly or indirectly to interfere
with the institution of slavery in the States
where it exists. believe have no lawful
right to do so, and have no inclination to
do so. have no purpose to introduce po-
litical and social equality between the white
and the black races. There is a physical
difference between the two which, in my
Judgment, will probably forbid their ever
living together upon the footing of perfect
equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a ne
cessity that there must be a difference, /,
well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the
race to which belong having the superior
position.
Upon a subsequent occasion, when the
reason for making a statement like this re-
CURED, l said:
''While / was at the hotel to-day an
elderly gentleman called upon me to know
whether / was really in favor of producing
perfect equality between the negroes and
white people. While | had not proposed to
myself on this occasion to say much on that
subject, yet as the question was asked me |
thought would occupy perhaps FIVE min
utes in saying something in regard to it
will say then, that | am not nor ever have
been in favor of bringing about IN any aOay
the social and political equality Of the sohite
and black rdces-that | am not or ever have
been in favor of making U0ters or jurors of
negroes, nor Of qualifying them to hold office,
OF iHtermdTTy ruth the sckite people and /
win say in addition to this that there is
physical difference between the white and
black races which believe W i'll forever for
bid the two races living together on terms
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much as they cannot so live, while they do
remain together there must be the posi-
ton of superior and Inferior and /, as much
as any other man. am in fitvOr of having
the superior position assigned to the white
race. | say upon this occasion do not per-
ceive that because the white man is to have
the superior position, the negro should be
denied every thing. do not understand
that because l do not want q negro woman
for a slave, must necessarily want her for
wife. My understanding is that | can
just let her alone. am now i'll my fftie!h
year, and | certainly never have had black
woman for either a slave or Il wife. So ii
seems to me quite possible tor us to get
along without making either slaves or wives
of negroes.
Mr.. Lincoln was led to Introduce this sub
ject in his speech at Columbus, from the
fact that the Ohio Statesman had made the
open and bareficed attack upon him, just
as a certain other Locofoco sheet in this
city persists in doing; and to it and all who
so loudly re-echo the charge, We commend
tae closing remark of Mr. Lincoln:
Having shown you this, there remains
but a word of Comment upon that newspa-
per article. 1t is this; that | presume the
editor of that paper is an honest and truth
loving man, and that he will be greatly OBJ
liged to me for furnishing him thus early
an opportunity to correct the misrepresent-
alton be has made, before it has run so
long that malicious people can call him a
liar"
51e MeIican War.-There is another
charge, not OF much Importance it is true
in this canvass but publicly and repeatedly
made, which it is perhaps proper to prove
false and slanderOus at the outset.
At Ottawa, in reply to Judge Douglas,
Mr. Lincoln said:
think my friend, the Judge, is equally
At fault when he charges at tie time
when was in Congress of having opposed
our soldiers who were fighting in the Next
can war. The Judge did not make his