Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition

Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition.

Since the first edition of this work was issued, startling and deplorable events have occurred. The great Anti-Slavery delusion, that originated with European monarchists more than fifty years ago, has culminated in disunion and civil war, as its authors always predicted it would. A party strongly imbued with the false theories and absurd assumptions of British writers and abolition societies, is in possession of the Federal Government, which it stands pledged to use to reduce its assumptions to practice. It holds that the negro, except in color, is a man like themselves, and naturally entitled to the same libertythat to deny him this liberty, is to enslave himthat, therefore, Southern society is wrong, and should be revolutionized, and it avows it to be its mission to accomplish thisto institute a policy that shall finally abolish or destroy the supremacy of the white man, and secure impartial freedom for negroes! To this the South replies, that this government was created for white men alone, and their posterity, as declared in the preamble to the Constitutionthat the Supreme Court has recently declared the same great truththat, seizing the government by a mere sectional vote, and placing it in distinct conflict with the social order of the South, with the avowed purpose of penning up its negro population, in order to bring about some day the extinction or overthrow of the existing condition, is, therefore, an overthrow of the Constitutionthat the object avowed necessarily involves their future destruction, and to save themselves from the wild delusion and malignant fanaticism of the North, they are forced, in viself-defense, to withdraw from the Union, hitherto, or until this hostile and dangerous party entered the field, so beneficial to all sections of the country. So stands the case between the sections. If the anti-slavery party was based on truthif the negro, except in color, was a man like ourselvesif social subordination of this negro was wrong, and the four millions of these people at the South entitled to the same liberty as ourselvesand if the men who made this government designed it to include the inferior races of this continent, and it were really beneficial to equalize and fraternize with these negroes, then, though it may be doubted, if using the common government to bring it about were proper, the end in view would be so beneficent, and such a transcendent act of justice to these assumed slaves, that all honest, earnest, and patriotic citizens should promptly sustain the party now striving to accomplish it. But, on the contrary, if this party is based on a stupendous falsehoodif the negro is a different and inferior being, and in his normal condition at the Southand if the men who made this government, designed it for white men alonethen the length and breadth and width and depth of the anti-slavery delusion, and the crime of the anti-slavery party, which has broken up the Union in a blind crusade after negro freedom, will be fully comprehended by the American people. The whole mighty question, therefore, with all its vast and boundless consequences, hinges on the apparently simple question of factis the negro, except in color, a man like ourselves, and therefore naturally entitled to the same liberty? It is absolutely certain that neither the liberty, the rights, nor the interests of one single northern citizen is involved; nothing whatever but a blind and foolish theory of negro slavery which is attempted to be forced on the South. If the people of the two great sections of the country could viichange places, the vast anti-slavery delusion would be exploded in sixty days. But as this is impossible, the next best thing is to explain the actual condition of things in the South to the northern mind. This great work the author has undertaken, not to defend an imaginary slavery, for it needs no defense, but to explain the social orderto demonstrate to the senses, as well as the reason, that the negro is a different and subordinate being, and in his normal condition at the South; and thus to show the enormous and fathomless folly, crime, and impiety wrapped up in the great anti-slavery delusion of the day. The former edition of this work was put to press so hurriedly, that it contained many errors, but the present one has been carefully revised; and, moreover, the introductory chapter has been rewritten, in order to present a more distinct history of the origin and progress of the great British anti-slavery imposture which is now working out its legitimate and designed purpose in the destruction of the American Union. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61063
Author: Van Evrie, John H.
Release Date: Dec 31, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English