On March 27 during the Civil War (before Gettysburg and G. Address): Lincoln met with delegation of Indian Chiefs

from a Dickinson College website for reference and education about the Civil War: Quotation from David Dayton's one-volume biography of LINCOLN (1995) -- page 393 -- “Lincoln admitted that he was poorly informed on Indian affairs. . .In general, like most whites of his generation, he considered the Indians a barbarous people who were a barrier to progress. The ceremonial visits of Indian chiefs, dressed in their tribal regalia, he welcomed, both because they were exotic and because he rather enjoyed playing the role of their Great Father, addressing them in pidgin English and explaining that ‘this world is a great, round ball.’ Occasionally, as during the following year, he would offer them little homilies on how they could profit by learning the ‘arts of civilization.’ Pointing out that the ‘great difference between this pale-faced people and their red brethren,’ he told a group in the White House that whites had become numerous and prosperous partly because they were farmers rather than hunters. Even though he admitted that ‘we are now engaged in a great war between one another,’ he also offered another reason for white success: ‘We are not, as a race, so much disposed to fight and kill on another as our red brethren.’ The irony was unintentional.” __________ __________ __________ Annotated Transcript of LINCOLN's remarks on March 27, 1863 (transcript) “You have all spoken of the strange sights you see here, among your pale-faced brethren; the very great number of people that you see; the big wigwams; the difference between our people and your own. But you have seen but a very small part of the palefaced people. You may wonder when I tell you that there are people here in this wigwam, now looking at you, who have come from other countries a great deal farther off than you have come. We pale-faced people think that this world is a great, round ball, and we have people here of the pale-faced family who have come almost from the other side of it to represent their nations here and conduct their friendly intercourse with us, as you now come from your part of the round ball.” http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/speech-to-indians-march-27-1863/