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
A foreign power—an aristocracy of the Old World—employs a machinery, a
contrivance, or thing called a government, to exterminate the white
population in these islands, and to turn them over to the rule of the
negro. Under the English system, political or official position, unlike
ours, carries with it social importance, and a negro who is a member of
the legislature or a magistrate in Jamaica is elevated, in a social
sense, above the white who holds no official position, no matter what
his claims may be in other respects. With the same legal and political
rights, the same schools, and with largely predominating numbers, and
most of the official positions in their hands, which, under the British
system always gives social importance, the whole operation of the
government is employed to elevate the negro in the social scale, and to
depress the white man. Of course, intermarriage or affiliation—that
hideous admixture of the blood of different races which God has
eternally forbidden, and so fearfully punishes with extinction—is a
direct and necessary consequence of this governmental policy.
A short time since the Queen of England knighted a negro, and as this
factitious elevation placed him in a social position, quite above the
untitled white man of Jamaica, the white woman of fashion would,
doubtless, smother the instincts God gave for her guidance, and
desecrate her womanhood by an alliance with this creature whom God made
inferior, but whom a woman, four thousand miles distant, was pleased to
make her equal. The government, therefore—all the governments of the
British Islands, and, indeed of all other European powers, are simply
instruments that are employed to elevate the negro and to depress the
white man to a common level, to equalize races, to obliterate
distinctions fixed forever by the hand of the Almighty, and make the
negro the equal of the white man. It is no negative or _laissez faire_
policy—no neutral or indifferent desire to apply a theory and leave it
to work itself out—no mere abstract declaration that all are equal, and
therefore should be left free to ascend or descend in the social scale
according to their merits; but, on the contrary, the government is an
active and all-potent machinery, in constant operation to _force_ the
negro up, and the white man down, to a common level. And it is probable
that people in England look upon this policy as just and proper. The
negroes largely predominate in number—why should they not have most of
the offices? They have been wronged and oppressed, and are without
education, and therefore the higher places must be filled by white men;
but why should not they enjoy all the places they are fit for? Such,
doubtless, is the notion of those in Europe, who, utterly ignorant of
the negro, suppose him a man like themselves, except in his color. But
human ignorance and impiety can not change His eternal decrees or alter
the works of the Almighty. A middle-aged, respectable woman in England
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