"I ask you then to consider seriously not pertaining to yourselves merely, nor for your race and ours for the present time but as one of the things if successfully managed, for the good of mankind—not confined to the present generation."[[108]]

In his special message to Congress April 16th, 1862, after alluding to the passage of the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, he approves the same and declares: "I am grateful that the principles of compensation and colonization are both recognized and practically applied in this act."[[109]]

[98] Jefferson Manuscript, Raynor, p. 64.
[99] Writings of Jefferson, Ford, Vol. X, p. 290
[100] Lincoln and Slavery, Arnold, p. 124.
[101] The African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 5.
[102] The African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. II, p. 12.
[103] Idem, p. 23.
[104] Abraham Lincoln, A History, N. & H., Vol. VI, p. 355.