An Appeal to Pharaoh: The Negro Problem, and Its Radical SolutionThe text argues for the removal of African Americans from the United States to Africa and includes extensive quotations from contemporary sources. |
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Africa ALBION W American annual Appeal to Cæsar assertion association black and colored black race blood cause census cent character Charleston citizens civil Cloth colonies colored females colored population condition Congo Continent cost cotton desire difference emigration equality evidence existence fact favor FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Fool's Errand force former Government HULBERT immigrants increase interest labor land leave Liberia Louisiana manifested ment millions Mississippi movement mulatto nation nearly Negro problem negro question North Northern number of colored number of deaths octoroon period persons political practicable prejudice present race-prejudice reason regard relations remain removal Republican result schools sections Senator sentiment Slater Fund slave slavery Solid South South South Carolina Southern Stanley Pool territory tion to-day trade truth Union United West Indies white and black white race York York Sun York Tribune
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Page 199 - I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...
Page 195 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth...
Page 122 - I appreciate your motive when you suggest the propriety of my writing for the public something disclaiming all intention to interfere with slaves or slavery in the States ; but in my judgment it would do no good. I have already done this many, many times ; and it is in print, and open to all who will read. Those who will not read or heed what I have already publicly said would not read or heed a repetition of it. "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one...
Page 17 - But he contended that the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but by other circumstances ; the most material of which resulted partly from climate, but principally from the effects of their having or not having slaves.
Page 67 - States is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to pay four hundred millions of dollars to the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West- Virginia...
Page 96 - The curse is taken off from nature, and like Adam again they are under the covenant of innocence. Morals in the technical sense they have none, but they cannot be said to sin, because they have no knowledge of a law, and therefore they can commit no breach of the law. They are naked and not ashamed.