Appealing of Race Prejudice

The New Orleans Times-Democrat frames former president Lincoln as “radically opposed to the Negro”.

The New Orleans, Louisiana, Times- Democrat is carrying at the head of its editorial columns extracts from the utterances of Abraham Lincoln during his campaign for political office and intending to show that he was opposed to the social and political equality of the white and black races and that he was even opposed to their serving as jurors. This journal carefully evades any references to his later utterances, bit attempts to convey the impression that Mr. Lincoln was as radically opposed to the Negro as is Senator B. R. Tillman of South Carolina.
This reminds us, too, that before the war the slave-owners quoted Scripture to prove that slavery was a divine institution and even Jesus Christ, who had left the earth eighteen hundred years before was represented as enforcing one of the foulest human institutions ever devised by man. So Mr. Lincoln is no exception to the rule. All these Negro-haters want is to get these men into the grave where they cannot speak for themselves and then they will proceed to speak for them.
This journal even quotes Thomas Jefferson, a dead man and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a live one. It is doing all this…

“Appealing of Race Prejudice,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed June 17, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/577.