WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE ?

"Largest mass hanging in United States history"

38 Santee "Sioux" Indian men

Mankato, Minnesota, Dec. 16, 1862
( Hung for hunting off the reservation ?)

SAINT PAUL, December 27, 1862. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:

 I have the honor to inform you that the thirty-eight Indians and half-breeds ordered by you for execution were hung yesterday at Mankato at 10 a.m. Everything went off quietly and the other prisoners are well secured. 

Respectfully, H. H. SIBLEY, Brigadier-General.

 "With malice toward none, with charity for all," (?)

During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 Lincoln said:

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary.

Lincoln in his speech to Charleston, Illinois, 1858

"I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the black races which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man."

(June 26, 1857)

 "Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be. The children of Israel, to such numbers as to include four hundred thousand fighting men, went out of Egyptian bondage in a body."

"Oh Abe we hardly knew ya "

Well at the least, we were not given the whole truth.