NYTimes Charles Blow Opinion

[David Lockmiller]

(08-31-2023 09:43 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  David, as for your quotation from Team of Rivals, which is not fatally flawed but also not the last word on Lincoln's administration, you engage in selective editing.

In an article in Phylon in 1965, James McPherson wrote:

"Soon...the delegation of Negroes to which Lincoln had spoken on August 14 issued their formal reply to the President's proposal. They deemed it 'inexpedient, inauspicious and impolitic to agitate the subject of emigration of the colored people of this country anywhere.... We judge it unauthorized and unjust for us to compromise the interests of over four and a half millions of our race by precipitate action on our part.'

Sorry, David, but again, you are wrong.

Best
Rob

What was my selective editing, Rob?

Also, I was unable to confirm your quotation below. By "soon," do you mean two days later on August 16, 1862?

Phylon in 1965, James McPherson wrote:

"Soon.. the delegation of Negroes to which Lincoln had spoken on August 14 issued their formal reply to the President's proposal. They deemed it 'inexpedient, inauspicious and impolitic to agitate the subject of emigration of the colored people of this country anywhere.... We judge it unauthorized and unjust for us to compromise the interests of over four and a half millions of our race by precipitate action on our part.'