As today is the 150th anniversary of his assassination I will divulge the answer.
quote:
But, as bad promises are better broken than kept, I shall treat this as a bad promise, and break it, whenever I shall be convinced that keeping it is adverse to the public interest. But I have not yet been so convinced.... It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that is were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers.
This is from his last public address on April, 11 1865
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/...oln/speeches/last.htm
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
™ Version 4.2
