Let’s compare and contrast. George Mason University Ph.D.
candidate (public policy program) Phil Magness has had this
terrific article published in the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln
Association. It shows that, until his dying day, Dishonest Abe
was hard at work trying to organize the colonization (i.e.,
deportation) of all the freed slaves. Here’s George Mason
University Ph.D. candidate (public policy program) Phil Magness,
in this terrific article published in the Journal of the Abraham
Lincoln Association: Constrained by the limitations of written
evidence, inquiry into Butler’s account becomes necessarily
speculative. Given the general’s probable exaggerations, one
conceivable scenario involves the conversation turning to the
subjects of racial conflict and colonization, with Lincoln
indicating his willingness to receive Butler’s suggestions. Such
a conversation would fall short of the specific project Butler
describes or Lincoln’s choice of Butler to complete the task,
though it indicates the possibility