It is insisted that their presence would injure and displace white labor and white laborers.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. A member of the Republican Party, he is best known for leading the nation through the Civil War and for his efforts to abolish slavery, notably through the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Lincoln's leadership during this tumultuous period helped to preserve the Union and set the stage for the eventual passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States.
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In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.
Is it true, then, that colored people can displace any more white labor by being free than by remaining slaves?
If they stay in their old places, they jostle no white laborers; if they leave their old places, they leave them open to white laborers.
Emancipation, even without deportation, would probably enhance the wages of white labor, and very surely would not reduce them.
Labor is like any other commodity in the market--increase the demand for it and you increase the price of it.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
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