Note 6 — LINCOLN'S PLAN FOR COLONIZING THE EMANCIPATED NEGROES[1]
Reading edition
In the same speech, Lincoln said: "I have said that the separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation.... Such separation, if ever effected at all, must be effected by Colonization." The Works of Abraham Lincoln, Federal Edition, edited by A. B. Lapsley, II, p. 306.