If they are a race of oppressed human beings, who are worthy of a better fate, and are grieving and struggling to rise to common equality, how is it that the whole labor of the attempt is exerted by another race of people than themselves?
Were the negro population of the southern states of the Union elevated to political equality with white men, and the doctrine of amalgamation allowed, which would be the certain consequence of such equality, would such a change in their favor secure contentment? our answer is, no, it would not, except they could have the exclusive rule. In their very being the God of nature has raised up a barrier between the two races, which cannot be passed without incurring consequences of the most revolting character.
To set the negroes free in all America, and to bestow upon them political equality, while, at the same time amalgamation should be penally resisted by death or perpetual imprisonment to both parties, there would arise out of such a state of the case all the horrors of hatred and confusion, violence and assassinations, that can be conceived of. There is a natural dislike of the races toward each other, on which account, were the negroes made politically free, without the privilege of intermarrying with the whites, there would soon arise quarrels and discontent; as the possession of mere political liberty, without all the other immunities of white society, would not and could not satisfy them. Nothing short of the most intense attention could prevent jealousies on their part; nor even this, as the knowledge of their own inferiority
