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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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cause is an abuse of terms, for itis simply a fact, and no more a cause than it is an effect.Cause and causes in natural phenomena are known only toOmnipotence, and why the Caucasian color is white or theMongol yellow, or the Negro black, is as absolutely hiddenfrom us as the cause of their existence at all—as wholly be-yond the scope of human intelligence, and therefore of rationalinquiry, as the cause of the return of the seasons, or whymen and animals at a certain time arrive at maturity or finallydecay and die. The divine wisdom and perfect fitness of thefact itself, however, are clearly appreciable, and we are able tosee, not only its transcendent importance, but the utter impos-sibility of its being otherwise. There is in all the works ofGod perfect harmony, as well as perfect wisdom, and, there-fore, such a monstrosity as a colored man—or a being likeourselves in all except the color of the negro—is not merelyabsurd, but as impossible in fact, though not so palpable to a
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VSB,—■ <■, MONGOLIAN. COLOB. 89 superficial intelligence, as a white body with a negro head onits shoulders, or indeed as a dog with the head of any otheranimal or form of being. The face of the Caucasian reflects the character, the emo-tions, the instincts, to a certain extent the intellectual forces,and even the acquired habits, the virtues or vices of the indi-vidual. This, to a certain extent, depends on the mobility ofthe facial muscles, and the general anatomical structure andoutline of the features; but without our color, the expressionwould be very imperfect, and the face wholly incapable of expressing the inner nature and specific character of the race.For example: What is there at the same time so charmingand so indicative of inner purity and innocence as the blush ofmaiden modesty ? For an instant the face is scarlet, then,perhaps, paler than ever in its delicate transparency; and thesephysical changes, beautiful as they may be to the eye, are ren*dered a thousand

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