Ward Hill Lamon, pictured, who was constantly with Lincoln in Washington and who talked to him intimately on different subjects, said Lincoln had no intention of extending to Blacks the privilege of "governing him and other white men" and that it was "as a white man, and in the interests of white men" that he opposed the extension of slavery...

When you begin to peel away at the Lincoln myth like an onion, you find in the end there is not much left."