[The Sable Cloud by Nehemiah Adams]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sable Cloud CHAPTER IX 46/48
The other are the lords of the soil; the institutions of the country are by their creation; they have acquired a perfect right and title to the government. "You know, from all history, that two races never could, and never did live together on the same soil, unless they intermarried, or one was subject to the other.
You admit this historical fact. "It is proposed, now, by some, to give the subject race a right to vote and to hold office, so that their equality in all things shall be acknowledged." "Pray," said Mr.North, "will you object to this? Has not God 'made of one blood all nations of men' ?" "Yes," I replied, "but read on, in that same verse:--'and hath determined the bounds of their habitation.' There is a law of races; races must have antipathies, unless they intermarry; he who seeks to confound them may as well labor for the conjugation of all the tribes of animals.
He and his results would prove to be monsters. "The Anglo Saxon race on this continent properly say to the Negro, 'If by conquest you get possession of the land, we must, of course, succumb to you.
We are now in possession, and mean so to continue.
Hard, therefore, as it seems not to let you vote in parts of the country where your numbers are such as to endanger our majority, or afford temptation to demagogues to inflame your prejudices and passions by historical appeals to them, and severe as it may seem not to let you form military companies, (which would also be mischievous in the same way) we nevertheless propose to exclude you from this right of suffrage, and from separate organizations, for our own defence, and that we may preserve our institutions for our proper descendants.
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