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
Thus, the British “anti-slavery” policy tends rapidly and constantly to
the restoration of Africanism, to savagery—to the building up of a
mighty barbarism in the very heart of the American continent—to the
establishment of a huge heathenism that shall spread itself over fifty
degrees of the most fertile and beautiful portion of the New World.
This, then, is the legitimate termination of that wide-spread delusion
of modern times, which has drawn into its fatal and monstrous embrace
multitudes of honest and well-meaning men, and while it already has
worked out evils so stupendous as to be almost beyond our powers of
computation to measure them, and never in an instance, direct or
indirect, done the slightest good whatever, at this moment it threatens
to inflict even greater evils on the world than those it has hitherto
cursed it with. The process through which all this mischief is worked
out can not or need not be mistaken—a man may run and read it, and
though a fool understand it. It is this: 1st. The dogma of a single
race—that the negro is a _black_-white man. 2d. The “anti-slavery”
policy of Pitt, nominally to put down the “slave trade.” 3d.
“Emancipation”—and whites and negroes declared equal. 4th. The policy of
European governments to elevate negroes and depress whites, inducing
social equality and consequent amalgamation. 5th. Absorption of the
white blood by mongrelism. 6th. Sterility and extinction of the mixed
element. 7th. Restoration of the African type and consequent savagism—a
huge heathenism—indeed, Africa itself literally lifted up and planted
down in the center of the New World—thus erecting a mighty barbarism
directly in the path of American civilization; and which, in all coming
time, as the ally or instrument of European monarchists, shall beat back
the waves of democracy, and dwarf the growth and limit the power of the
American Republic.
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