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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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intellectual power are arrayed on the side ofproduction and in defence of the rights of labor, not by awarfare on northern capital, as it is sometimes charged, but by 308 THE ALLIANCE OF NORTHERN, ETC. demanding that government shall not legislate for the latter atthe expense of the former. Nor is the subordinate element—the inferior race in our midst, which, in the providence of Godhas thus been made the mediate or immediate cause of suchvast and boundless benefit to the freedom, progress, and wellbeing of the superior race—without participation in these ben-efits. God has designed all His creatures for happiness, and tinshappiness is always secured when they are in their true posi-tion, and in natural relations to each other; and when the con-dition of the negro is compared with his African state—theexisting population with their African progenitors—then it isseen that the progress and happiness of the inferor hasinarched pari passu with those of the superior race. %a n /v%.
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NEGRO CHAPTER XXIII. THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO. There are something like twelve millions of negroes inAmerica, on the mainland and the adjacent islands—as largea proportion, perhaps, in view of their industrial adaptation, asthere are of the Caucasian or dominant race; and, therefore,whatever may be the contingencies or the wants of the future,there would seem to be no necessity now for any further im-portation of these people. Of the twelve millions, there aiebetween four and five millions in their normal condition at theSouth. There are, perhaps, half a million of so-called froenegroes, about equally divided between Worth and South.There are about four millions in Brazil, Cuba, and Porto Rico ofso-called slaves, but really in a widely different condition fromthat common to the South. Finally, there are between threeand four millions of so-called free negroes in the tropics, inJamaica, Hayti, and the other islands, with some thousands,however, scattered about the coast towns, and in

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