Zinzendorf, Good quotes their you made
And just a Log on the fire about ole Abe's "EP" He didn't care for the black man during his days as President and only made the Emancipation Proclamation to keep the European Countries from helping the Southerns fight the Union. Abe's use of the "EP" was the first use of the RACE CARD for politicos as far as I know.
BTW on the subject of Buffalo Soldiers, Before the War for Southern Independence the Blacks were welcomed as fellow oppressed people by the Seminoles and Cherokee and taken in as Tribe members. After the War though "thru the treatment the Indians received from liquored up Buffalo Soldiers" many a Black family were thrown out of the Tribes they had been adopted into because they felt the loss of a common bond because of the way the freed Blacks now treated the Indians.It always amazes me the way an oppressed people will when put into a position to oppress others will quickly take up the mantel and become the oppressor.