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
examined in detail, these detailed demonstrations are merely designed to
present the physical differences in order to determine the moral
relations, and not by any means to demonstrate a fact always palpable to
the senses. Even those foolish people, disposed to pervert terms or play
upon words—to admit the fact, thus palpable, but ready to confound and
distort the reason by the application or use of false terms, cannot
avoid the inevitable conclusion of distinct species. To conceal or keep
out of sight this truth, some have thus admitted these every day seen
and unmistakable specific differences in dividing races, but a silly as
strange perversity has prompted them to use the term “permanent
varieties” instead of “species,” as if white and black were variations
and not specialties. It is a fact, an existing, unalterable,
demonstrable, and unmistakable fact, that the Negro is specifically
different from ourselves—a fact uniform and invariable, which has
accompanied each generation, and under every condition of circumstances,
of climate, social condition, education, time and accident, from the
landing at Jamestown to the present day. The Naturalist, reasoning alone
on this basis of fact, says, that which has been uniform and undeviating
for three hundred years, in all kinds of climate and under all kinds of
circumstances, in a state of “freedom” or condition of “slavery,” under
the burning Equator and amid the snows of Canada, without change or
symptom of change, must have been thus three thousand years ago. And he
reasons truly, for the excavations of Champolion and others demonstrate
the specific character of this race four thousand years ago, with as
absolute and unmistakable certainty as it is now actually demonstrated
to the external sense of the present generation. And the Naturalist,
reasoning still further on this basis of fact, says, “that which has
existed four thousand years, without the slightest change or
modification, which in all kinds of climate and under every condition of
circumstances preserves its integrity and transmits, in the regular and
normal order, to each succeeding generation the exact and complete type
of itself, must have been thus at the beginning, and when the existing
order was first called into being by the Almighty Creator.” And
contemplating the subject from this stand-point, and reasoning from
analogy, or exactly as we do in respect to other and all other forms of
existence, the conclusion is irresistible and unavoidable that the
several human races or species originally came into being exactly as
they now exist, as we know they have existed through all human
experience, and without a re-creation, must continue to exist so long as
the world itself lasts, or the existing order remains. But a large
portion of the “world” believe that the Bible teaches the descent of all
mankind from a single pair, and consequently that there must have been a
supernatural interposition at some subsequent period, which changed the
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