Excerpt from The True Story of the Barons of the South: Or the Rationale of the American Conflict
""A Negro has a soul, an" please your honor," said the Corporal (doubtingly).
""I am not much versed, Corporal," quoth my Uncle Toby, "in things of that kind; but I suppose God would not leave him without one any more than thee or me."
""It would be putting one sadly over the head of the other," quoth the Corporal.
""It would so," said my Uncle Toby.
""Why, then, an" please your honor, is a black man to be used worse than a white one?"
""I can give no reason," said my Uncle Toby.
""Only," cried the Corporal, shaking his head, "because he has no one to stand up for him."
""It is that very thing, Trim," quoth my Uncle Toby, "which recommends him to protection."" - Sterne.
"We must not allow negroes to be Men, lest we ourselves should be suspected of not being Christians." - Montesquieu.
"The man is thought a knave or fool,
Or bigot, plotting crime,
Who, for the advancement of his kind,
Is wiser than his time.
For him the hemlock shall distil;
For him the axe be bared;
For him the gibbet shall be built;
For him the stake prepared;
Him shall the scorn and wrath of men
Pursue with deadly aim;
And malice, envy, spite, and lies
Shall desecrate his name.
But truth shall conquer at the last;
For round and round we run,
And ever the right comes uppermost,
And ever is justice done." MacKay.
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