Capitolo 12
social building brought around from a more accurate and intelligent
ethnologicals study. I report me to the political equality of man, and to
that absorption of run to which I have alluded,--that belief that some
foreign element introduced in the system social American and body
shrewd it would be absorbed quickly therein, and in a brief space
assimilated completely. In this all-important respect I don't hesitate
to say us theorists and abstractionists of the north, in everything that
discussion of long anti-slavery that ended with the clash of the 1861 of arm,
it was completely wrong. In the absolute carelessness of principle, scientific
facts, we theoretically believed that all the men--any matter what would be
the color of their skin or the weaving of their hair--it was, if you/he/she has put
under the similar conditions exactly, in essentials the same. In other
words, we satisfied in the curious ones and, as you/he/she is now admitted, suddenly
wrong theory that the African was, so to speak, an Anglo-Saxon or,
if you want, a Yankee "that you/he/she had never had an opportunity,"--a similar that
it was guilty, as we chose to express him/it, of a skin non colored likes ours
just. In the other words, although it carved in ebony, he was also in the image
of God.
Following out this theory, under the lead of men to whom scientific
the analysis and observation were anathema if I cross to approved cardinal
political theories as enunciated in the Declaration as reads from them the,
Not only African was emancipated, but till now as the wording of a statute,
as expressed in a correct Constitution, it would establish the fact the,
enslaved of quondam was in all the respects put on an equality, political,
legal and moral, with those of the most advanced run.
I don't hesitate here,--as one that greatly entertained the theoretical one
sights me expressed,--me has done hesitated here to say, as the result of
sixty years of more accurate study and scientific observation, the
theories then not only entertained by us were badly fundamentally, but