-Caveat Lector- Interesting item in February 2000 Ebony Magazine.....their opinion of Abraham Lincoln and some opinions expressed by Honest Abe. Many people have long loved John Wilkes Booth - and the picture I have of his great grandfather, John Wilkes - Illuminati and Hells Fire Club - I shall cherish always....even though Hogarth enraved horns upon his head. So see what the biggest black magazine has to say about Lincoln, who should have stuck to splitting rails ... Saba Location: Keyword: Search for View publications: by Subject | by Name: A-ZSearch Tips Terms related to this article: Emancipation proclamation History, Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream Book Excerpts, Slavery Emancipation, Presidents Racial attitudes Ebony Web site Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Print this article | Email this article Did Lincoln REALLY Free The Slaves?(Excerpt) Author/s: Lerone, Jr. Bennett Issue: Feb, 2000 New Book Says Most Famous Act In American History Never Happened THE presidential campaign of 1860 was over, and the victor was stretching his legs and shaking off the cares of the world in his temporary office in the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Surrounded by the perks of power, at peace with the world, the president-elect was regaling old acquaintances with tall tales about his early days as a politician. One of the visitors interrupted this monologne and remarked that it was a shame that "the vexatious slavery matter" would be the first question of public policy the new president would have to deal with in Washington. The president-elect's eyes twinkled and he said he was reminded of a story. According to eyewitness Henry Villard, President-elect Abraham Lincoln "told the story of the Kentucky Justice of the Peace whose first case was a criminal prosecution for the abuse of slaves. Unable to find any precedent, he exclaimed angrily: `I will be damned if I don�t feel almost sorry for being elected when the niggers is the first thing I have to attend to.�" This story, shocking as it may sound to Lincoln admirers, was in character. For the president-elect had never shown any sincere sympathy for Blacks, and none of his cronies was surprised to hear him suggest that he shared the viewpoint of the reluctant and biased justice of the peace. As for the N-word, everybody knew that old Abe used it all the time, both in public and in private. (Since Lincoln supporters are in a state of constant denial, I have not used elision in reporting his use of the offensive word n--r.) In one of the supreme ironies of history, the man who told this story was forced by circumstances to attend to what he called "the nigger question." And within five years he was enshrined in American mythology as "the great emancipator" who freed Blacks with a stroke of the pen out of the goodness of his heart. Since that time, the mythology of "the great emancipator" has become a part of the mental landscape of America. Generations of schoolchildren have memorized its cadences. Poets, politicians, and long-suffering Blacks have wept over its imagery and drama. No other American story is so enduring. No other American story is so comforting. No other American story is so false. Abraham Lincoln was not "the great emancipator." The testimony of sixteen thousand books and monographs to the contrary notwithstanding, Lincoln did not emancipate the slaves, greatly or otherwise. As for the Emancipation Proclamation, it was not a real emancipation proclamation at all, and did not liberate African-American slaves. John F. Hume, the Missouri antislavery leader who heard Lincoln speak in Alton and who looked him in the eye in the White House, said the Proclamation "did not ... whatever it may have otherwise accomplished at the time it was issued, liberate a single slave." Sources favorable to Lincoln were even more emphatic. Lincoln crony Henry Clay Whitney said the Proclamation was a mirage and that Lincoln knew it was a mirage. Secretary of State William Henry Seward, the No. 2 man in the administration, said the Proclamation was an illusion in which "we show our sympathy with the slaves by emancipating the slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free." continued ... 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