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
All the peculiarities
that distinguish him from his race are _sui generis_, without any
approximation or resemblance to the white man. So, too, with the
latter, and so, too, with all monstrosities in the lower animals. The
things that constitute the monstrosity, that separate the creature, or
seem to do so, from his own kind, separate him also from other
species, whether of men or animals. The eternal gulf, the impassable
barrier, the decreed limits fixed by the Creator himself, are never
passed. A negro, with the color, or the hair, or the language, or the
brain, or the sense of touch, or taste, or sight of the Caucasian,
would not be a monstrosity but an impossibility. He might differ very
widely from his own race in any one of these things, as we actually
witness in the case of Albinos, in fact might retain scarcely any
outward resemblance to his kind, and yet exist; but none has ever had,
or ever will have, an existence that has any thing in common with the
white man, for that would contradict the universal order of God
himself.
Such being the fact, all that is external or tangible to the sense being
thus widely, immeasurably, and indestructibly different from the
Caucasian or white man, it is obvious that, in all beyond the outer
surface, the same relative differences must exist. It was originally
intended to demonstrate this in detail—to show the actual anatomical
facts and structural differences in the organs, the tissues, the
systems, down to the minutest atom of the bodily structure. It was
designed to present the reader with numerous plates, showing all
this—the minutest particle, the single globule of blood, even, painted
after the employment of the microscope, being sufficiently palpable to
the sense, to show that the primordial atoms of the negro structure are
as specifically, and relatively as widely, different from the white
man’s as the color, the hair, or any of those outward qualities that
confront us daily in the streets. But this would have added so much to
the expense of the work, as to often place it out of the reach of the
day laborer and working man, those who alone, or mainly, need to
understand the great “anti-slavery” imposture of our times, and the
world-wide conspiracy against their freedom, manhood and happiness,
which has so long held them in abject submission to its clamorous
pretences of philanthropy and humanity. Nor is it at all essential. A
moment’s reflection or consideration is quite sufficient to convince any
rational mind that the outward differences must have their counterpart
in the entire structure. Of course any thing exceptional—a blemish, a
congenital deformity on the surface—has no corresponding relation with
the interior, but that which is specific, uniform, and invariable, as
the color, the hair, the features, etc., must of necessity pervade the
_tout ensemble_ of being, whether human, animal, or vegetable. The
apple, pear, peach, etc., have their own specific features externally,
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