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Title: White supremacy and Negro subordination; or, Negroes a subordinate race, and (so-called) slavery its normal condition, with an appendix, showing the past and present condition of the countries south of us
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Van Evrie, John H., b. 1816
Subjects: Slavery -- Justification African Americans Slavery -- United States Controversial literature 1868 Latin America
Publisher: New York, Van Evrie, Horton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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connected with correspondingfaculties or functions, and therefore the more prominent physi-cal qualities of the negro have been presented, in order to illus-trate his mental and moral nature. It has also been shownthat the all-powerful instinct (prejudice) which revolts at thecommingling of the blood of different races (stronger even withthe negro than our own race) springs from a fundamentalorganic necessity, impelling us to preserve our structural in-tegrity, and if disregarded and violated, it carries with it acorresponding penalty, and the miserable progeny, like allother abnormal conditions, is limited to a determinate exist-ence ; that that which the Eternal hand has moulded and fash-ioned is also eternal, and beyond the power, caprice, ignorance,or wickedness of His creatures, to change or modify; andtherefore all the departures from the typical standard—allforms and degrees of the mongrel or mixed blood—are doomedto final extinction. Here we h°ve, then, four millions of a
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OC EAN IC. % <P the slave teade. 169 widely different race in our midst, and though we of the pres-ent generation may not be responsible for their presence amongus, and are only called upon to deal with the fact itself, with-out regard to its origin, the subject is of profound interest, andhowever current or unanimous the opinion may now be againstthe original slave trade, it is believed that a larger knowl-edge and a more extended acquaintance with the facts em-braced in that subject will finally result in a total change ofpopular (American) opinion. And what American will notrejoice at such a result, if, when all the facts are known andtested by reason and conscience and the dictates of a truehumanity, it is found that, however censurable the means em-ployed may sometimes have been, the slave trade, the origi-nal importation of African negroes by our ancestors, wrasright ? The negro, as has been shown, from the necessities ofhis organism—the size and form of his brain—is, per

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