Negroes and Negro "slavery." The first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition . NEGROES AND NEGRO SLAVERY: THE FIRST AN II(FERIOK RACE: THE LATTER ITS NORMAL CONDITION. BY J. H. YAN EYRIE, * To oar reproach It must be said, that, though for a century and a half we have had under cureyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects ofnatural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether oiiginally adifferent race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the bot
Negroes and Negro "slavery." The first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition . NEGROES AND NEGRO SLAVERY: THE FIRST AN II(FERIOK RACE: THE LATTER ITS NORMAL CONDITION. BY J. H. YAN EYRIE, * To oar reproach It must be said, that, though for a century and a half we have had under cureyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects ofnatural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether oiiginally adifferent race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the both of mind and body.—Thomas Jeiffekson in his JVoies on Virginia. THIRD EDITION. NEW YORK:VAN EYRIE, HORTON & CO., 162 NASSAU 6 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, hj JOHN H. VAN EVKIE, lb the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, for tte Southern District of New York. 26316 BTBEEOTTPKD BY Smith & MoDoiroAi.,82 & 84 Be^kman-Bt. PREFACE. Since the first edition of this work was issued, startling anddeplorable events have occurred. The great Anti-Slaverydelusion, that originated with European monarchists more thanfifty years ago, has culminated in disunion and civil war, as itsauthors always predicted it would. A party strongly imbuedwith the false theories and absurd assumptions of Britishwriters and abolition societies, is in possession of the FederalGovernment, which it stands pledged to use to reduce itsassumptions to practice. It holds that the negro, except incolor, is a man like themselves, and naturally entitled to thesame liberty—that to deny him this liberty, is to enslave him—that, therefore. Southern society is wrong, and should berevolutionized, a
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