WHy any of his posts have responses, much less 20+ is beyond me.
..........because some people are intelligent enough to accept truth regardless of their likes or dislikes for a person. I had a general dislike for all white folks, however in
"fairness"; I couldn't ignore the fact that Abraham Lincoln, Helen Pitts Douglass(avatar), Charles Sumner, and hundreds of thousands of whites hated slavery, and fought against their own blood relatives for the cause of righteousness. Lincoln lost friends and blood relatives because of his Godly belief and war against oppression/slavery. I had to do honest research and learn that it's not fair to characterize all people of one race as believing/being the same, especially if you do your homework..............
President-elect Lincoln proposed comparing heights but a stiff-backed Senator Charles Sumner. Mr. Lincoln later recalled: "Sumner declined to stand up with me, back to back, to see which was the tallest man, and made a fine speech about being the time for uniting our fronts against the enemy and not our backs. But I guess he was afraid to measure, though he is a good piece of a man. I never had much to do with bishops where I live, but, do you know, Sumner is my idea of a bishop."1 Nevertheless, the two opponents of slavery soon enough found reasons to work back to back.
On December 1, 1861, President Lincoln met with Senator Charles Sumner regarding the Trent affair and emancipation. Sumner told Mr. Lincoln:
"Now, Mr. President, if you had done your duty earlier in the slavery matter, you would not have this trouble on you. Now you have no friends, or the country has none, because it has no policy upon slavery. The country has no friends in Europe, excepting isolated persons. England is not a friend. France is not. But if you had commenced your policy about slavery, this thing could and would have come and gone and would have given you no anxiety...."2
"By the time Congress reassembled in December, Sumner was confident that further blows against slavery were in the offing. Early in the session he and the President had a long discussion of emancipation, and Lincoln told him:
'Well, Mr. Sumner the only difference between you and me on this subject is a difference of a month or six weeks in time.,'" wrote David Donald, who authored biographies of both Sumner and President Lincoln.
"'Mr. President,' replied Sumner, 'if that is the only difference between us, I will not say another word to you about it till the longest time you name has passed by.'"3 Sumner wrote Massachusetts Governor John Andrew that "He tells me that I am head of him only a month or six weeks."4
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