Is it the same as Lincoln's, or the Republican's?????
Let's explore exactly what that vision was....and is.
1. From the jump......
The Democrat Party requires an explanation more so than does Lincoln.
Lincoln was the first President from the party created to end slavery, and fight the Democrats to do it.
But for Lincoln and the Republicans, just as it was for the Founders, having the nation survive came first.
2.For the Democrats, the calculation was exactly the opposite: they wanted slavery to survive, and would have been perfectly happy to see two nations, one in the South, one in the North.
Today’s Democrat Party is identical in this view of America, as their desire for open borders, no borders, means the same thing: no America.
There can be no clearer statement of the Democrat intentions than the word of their candidate who ran against Lincoln:
Illinois Democrat Stephen Douglas, of the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas made his feelings clear:
“Now, I do not believe that the Almighty ever intended the negro to be the equal of the white man. …. He belongs to an inferior race, and must always occupy an inferior position.
I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity for ever; and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, ….”
In the First Debate with Lincoln
In the First Debate with Lincoln by Stephen Arnold Douglas. America: II. (1818-1865). Vol. IX. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations
And,...no....there never was any 'flip' of the racial policies of the two parties.
3.Due to the Democrat’s resistance to freeing their slaves, Lincoln had to make a calculation, a choice, between saving the Union, or freeing the slaves….leaving the latter for a later date.
Here’s the offer he made to the Democrats:
“As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union.
If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.” Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley
So, Lincoln would accede to the wishes of the Democrat Party to save America as a nation.
But…..there were two distinct and very different views in that Democrat Party.
Next.
Let's explore exactly what that vision was....and is.
1. From the jump......
The Democrat Party requires an explanation more so than does Lincoln.
Lincoln was the first President from the party created to end slavery, and fight the Democrats to do it.
But for Lincoln and the Republicans, just as it was for the Founders, having the nation survive came first.
2.For the Democrats, the calculation was exactly the opposite: they wanted slavery to survive, and would have been perfectly happy to see two nations, one in the South, one in the North.
Today’s Democrat Party is identical in this view of America, as their desire for open borders, no borders, means the same thing: no America.
There can be no clearer statement of the Democrat intentions than the word of their candidate who ran against Lincoln:
Illinois Democrat Stephen Douglas, of the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas made his feelings clear:
“Now, I do not believe that the Almighty ever intended the negro to be the equal of the white man. …. He belongs to an inferior race, and must always occupy an inferior position.
I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity for ever; and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, ….”
In the First Debate with Lincoln
In the First Debate with Lincoln by Stephen Arnold Douglas. America: II. (1818-1865). Vol. IX. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations
And,...no....there never was any 'flip' of the racial policies of the two parties.
3.Due to the Democrat’s resistance to freeing their slaves, Lincoln had to make a calculation, a choice, between saving the Union, or freeing the slaves….leaving the latter for a later date.
Here’s the offer he made to the Democrats:
“As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union.
If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.” Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley
So, Lincoln would accede to the wishes of the Democrat Party to save America as a nation.
But…..there were two distinct and very different views in that Democrat Party.
Next.