claim: says president abraham lincoln "tried to arm the slaves."
author: andrew napolitano
evidence_1: apr 23, 2013 ... remember that time abraham lincoln tried to get the slaves to leave america ? ... frederick douglass says the president of the united states has become ...  the proprietor is driven off of the island almost by force of arms.
evidence_2: mar 19, 2014 ... stewart: lincoln tried to pay to free the slaves but found no takers one of ... that  the bloody conflict was president abraham lincoln's war by choice. ... be for  slaves, napolitano said that lincoln had tried to arm the slaves.
evidence_3: this letter is a summary of a conversation which president abraham lincoln had  ... he said, "i claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events  have ... of my ability, i had even tried to preserve the constitution, if, to save  slavery, ... i believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation, and  arming ...
evidence_4: he made a motion of some kind with his arm or head, and broke the strain, which,  ... in a speech in chicago on july 10, 1858 lincoln said he of slavery: “i have ....  giddings and lincoln tried to soothe hurt feelings, but giddings concluded that  the ... when congress was about adjourning that session, president polk asked ...
evidence_5: feb 14, 2018 ... the famed abolitionist wasn't sure how lincoln would treat him. but he ... would  the president meet with a former slave? ... douglass wanted an immediate  meeting with president abraham lincoln. .... when douglass entered the room,  he found lincoln sitting in a low-arm chair, without vanity or “pomp and ...