Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition.Van Evrie, John H.
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Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition.
Van Evrie, John H.
African Americans; Slavery -- Justification; Slavery -- United States
Mulattoism is an abnormalism—a disease—a result that brings suffering
unspeakable as well as extinction—that is unavoidable; and, in view of
this fate brought upon them by a foreign government, who can doubt but
that the total slaughter of the white people of Jamaica would have been
merciful, in comparison to that forced upon them by the abolition of
“slavery,” and equality with negroes? Or will any one sufficiently
informed on this subject, who understands the physical and moral
suffering involved or inseparably linked with the mixed blood, doubt for
a moment that, as a question of humanity, it would be vastly more humane
to slaughter all the negroes in our midst, rather than apply to them the
abolition theory, or rather than doom them to legal equality, to
amalgamation, to mulattoism, mongrelism, and that final unavoidable
extinction that necessarily attends the minor element under these
circumstances? But in addition to the physical suffering attending the
process of extinction in Jamaica, it was, or is, or must be, the
annihilation of Caucasian intelligence, of civilization, of all that God
has bestowed upon His creatures that is exalted and glorious, and
therefore the crime perpetrated, however blindly or well-intentioned,
must stand out in future ages the most awful and impious ever known in
human annals.
Such is a brief outline of the physiological laws governing mulattoism
and mongrelism—that abnormal or diseased condition which results from
admixture of the blood of separate races or species of men. Its mental
and moral features are equally distinct and discordant, though less
susceptible of explanation or of being classified, as in the case of the
merely physical qualities. As a general principle the mongrel has
intellectual ability in proportion as he approximates to the superior
race. This is a necessary truth; there is mental capacity or
intelligence, latent or actual, in exact proportion to the size of the
brain, in animals, indeed, as well as human beings, as certainly and
invariably as there is muscular power in proportion to the size and form
of the muscles; but this principle is hardly a guide or test in respect
to the moral qualities of the mixed blood. There is scarcely anything or
any phase of the general subject that has so blinded and led astray
“anti-slavery” writers as this subject of mulattoism; for they were not
only ignorant of it, but never dreamed for a moment that there was any
such thing in existence, and constantly assumed in their reasonings (?)
that the mulatto was a negro, and therefore presented him, and even the
quadroon, as an evidence of the mental capacity of that race. One of
these people would find his way to England or the North, was educated,
became an editor, physician, priest, sometimes even an author, on a
small scale perhaps, at all events a public lecturer, to whom white men
and women listened with the utmost gravity, and perfectly satisfied
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