Lincolns Negro Policy.pdf

It may be regrettable, but it is undoubtedly a truism, that

"public opinion" is often the product of slogans. Ask the average

American in the street what is our greatest symbol of Sanctuary,

and nine times out of ten he or she will suggest the Statue of

Liberty on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. "Isn't it a symbol of

free immigration?" they will ponder.

Few Americans realize that the Statue of Liberty was a gift of

friendship from France to the United States, and that the slogan

"Give me your tired, your hungry, etc." was inscribed on the

plinth much later. The original statue had nothing to do with

immigration. The slogan—written by one Emma Lazarus—was

added only after Ellis Island became an immigration transit sta-

tion.

Ask the average American what Thomas Jefferson had to say

about race relations, and he or she will undoubtedly quote the slo-

gan inscribed on the Jefferson Monument in Washington, DC:

"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that

these people are to be free." However, what Mr. Average is

unlikely to know is the sentence which followed: "Nor is it less

certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same

government."

Ask again who freed the slaves and why, and the man-in-the-

street will correctly suggest Abraham Lincoln, but will undoubt-

edly have the idea that this was to make American citizens out of

the Negroes. Nothing could be further from the truth. Lincoln

freed the slaves so that they could be repatriated to Africa. Sev-

eral times he spoke out against racial integration, and

vociferously condemned the idea of having Negro American

citizens.

This little book fills in the gaps the regular History books leave

out. We will leave it to the reader to determine why it is these

gaps exist.

FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION

Throughout his adult life the author of this pamphlet had

one goal: the settlement of the race problem in the United

States. After years of study and contact with Negroes, he

was convinced that the problem has no solution save in one

or the other of two forms—separation of the races or amal-

gamation. Convinced that separation is preferable to

amalgamation, Earnest Sevier Cox worked with Negro

leaders of the "Back-to-Africa" movement, and kept in

touch with some of them until his death in April of 1966.

In this pamphlet he shows that Abraham Lincoln

repeatedly advocated repatriation of the American Negro in

a land of his own where the race would not lose it purity;

that, contrary to allegations from some sources that Lincoln

changed his views regarding this matter, he was making

plans to establish a colony in Africa for American Negroes

a few days before he was assassinated.

The efforts of Lincoln, Madison, Jefferson,

Clay, Webster, Grant and other prominent Americans to

promote repatriation of the Negro are dealt with in Cox's

White America. which book is his most complete, and is

recognized as one of the best studies of the race problem in

America ever written.

Lincoln's Negro Policy first appeared in 1938. Readers of

today will recognize that every element of the race problem

has remained the same, except more sharply defined as our

Nation slides toward a chaos made inevitable by the

cowardly refusal of whites in America to face up to racial

realities and to recognize and support Negro nationalism.

Since 1938 Negro nationalism has grown far faster

among Negroes than assimilation-ism, in spite of billions of

dollars which have been expended by white assimilationists

to propagandize Negroes, and in spite of a press uniformly

unfavorable to all manifes-

tations of nationalism among Negroes. Small wonder that

some Negroes have been forced to turn to violence in their

uncompromising struggle for the racial integrity, freedom

and dignity that should be the right of every race, while the

professional agitators who preach assimilation have been

the recipients of "peace" awards, unlimited amounts of pub-

licity and money and oceans of maudlin tears shed by

hypocrites who demand racial integration for others but

who would never dream of living in a Negro neighborhood

themselves.

This book is reprinted as a memorial to Earnest Sevier

Cox, and to the timeless ideals for which he fought

throughout a life of self-sacrifice and single-minded

dedication. Those ideals are more valid and urgent today

than during his life; and if that life helps others to see the

truth with a quicker insight, so as to contribute to the one

and only responsible solution of America's greatest

problem—the race problem—then his works in death will

bear a significance of the greatest magnitude.

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