On the record
It is insisted that their presence would injure and displace white labor and white laborers.
Source
gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “It is insisted that their presence would injure and displace white labor and white laborers.”
Editor's note · Context
Lincoln addresses the argument that the presence of free colored people would harm white laborers.
Share
More from Abraham Lincoln
Apr 11, 1865
I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.
Apr 11, 1865
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.
Apr 11, 1865
Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.
Apr 11, 1865
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Other voices in this conversation
