William Patton

“ The advocates of the mental equality of the black and white races are obliged to go outside of the ranks of the. black man, with very rare exceptions, and claim for his race the talents of a Fred. Douglas, a Selma Martin, a John M. Langston, a Solomon Cooper, and others of a mixed race, who have inherited their talents from their white ancestry; and it is as untrue to call those men black men, or negroes, as it would be to call them white men—they are neither. ”

“ But the learned Theologians say that Adam's name imports that he was a red man. For my part I propose to compromise with the Theologians, by calling him a white man with a reddish complexion—because that is really the natural complexion of white men, generally: but there are some of them who are naturally of such a reddish hue, that it would be no mistake to call them red men; and for aught we know, Adam might have been of that class.
The Indians of this country are called red men; but their complexion is not a true red—they are copper colored—which is a pale brick red tinged with yellow. ”

“ If the Parents are white, the children will be white—if they are black, their children will be black: or if one of the Parents is white and the other black, then the complexion of their children will be midway between that of their Parents; and so it is, whatever the complexion of their Parents may be; and, therefore, according to the laws of Nature, the complexion of either the white or black man cannot possibly be derived from any crossing between his race and that of any other. ”

“ As early as 2700 years ago the fair widowed Queen, Dido, of Carthage, committed suicide rather than comply with the unnatural and selfish importunities of her principal subjects, to marry Iarbus, the swarthy Monarch of Mauritania, in Africa. And as a further illustration of its existence, the white man is quicker and fiercer to resent an insult from a black man than from one of his own race. ”

“ Thus the black man inherently carries with him, the natural elements of his own dark complexion; and his black and thick skin; his matted wool; his thick skull, and his strong odor, to repel the baneful effects of the sickening malaria of a hot climate were evidently intended to adapt him to it, and thus, also, the other colored races inherently carry with them the elements of their own native complexions. ”

“ The whole arcana of Nature shows that the Creator delighted in varieties. In the animal Kingdom, we have varieties of the Horse, Cow, Hog, Dog, Wolf, Fox, Deer. &c. In the vegetable Kingdom we have varieties of the different kinds of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, &c, and, in the mineral Kingdom, we have varieties of the different kinds of Earths, Ores, Crystals, &c., and the varieties of mankind are therefore in perfect unison with the vast system of creation. ”

“ Thus showing how fastidious Nature is in preserving the separate identity of each of the Races; and how the great Author of Nature has put his irrevocable seal of condemnation upon this new and unnatural doctrine of mis-cegenation—a process, by which the intellectual standard of the inferior race would be partially elevated at the lamentable sacrifice of dragging down that of the superior race to an intermediate and degrading level of a spurious race ”

“ There are a very few instances where white women, who, are abandoned to all respect for the popular sense of propriety of their own sex and race, that have cohabited with black men; and also where giddy white girls have been decoyed into matrimonial alliances with them, through the illusion of a delusive feeling of romance ”

“ In short, none of them have ever given to the world a Harrison to invent Time pieces—a Guttenburg to invent Types—a Fulton and a Stephenson to apply the power of steam to ships and machinery—a Franklin to draw the lightening from the clouds—a Morse to give to electricity the power of winging thoughts with the speed of lightening—or a Daguerre to invent the camera to paint true imitations of animate and inanimate objects with geometrical exactness. ”

“ The theories and arguments advanced by you are of such a startling character that even those who have been inclined to concede to Darwin all that is claimed for him, are looking at your work with critical and enquiring eyes. There is a brilliant originality and plausibility in all the leading features of your work, that causes thinkers to regard it as one of the most valuable papers of the age. ”

“ Domingo, they violated the persons of white females, and immediately after satiating their brutal lusts, they murdered them, by deliberately cutting their throats. The intensity of their affections never impels them to commit suicide at the shrine of unrequited love. ”

“ The disparity in the Races is so palpably evident that even the untutored savage, guided by the light of natural reason and the instincts of nature, believes in their separate creations, as is aptly illustrated by the following curious tradition. ”

“ For it is manifest that a cross of the Black man with any other race destroys his black complexion, and that likewise a cross of the white man with any other destroys his white complexion. Then how can the white man's complexion be accounted for, unless it be on the hypothesis that Adam and Eve were both white? ”

“ From his peculiar organism, the black man can never be pre-eminent in the higher or more useful and intricate branches of mathematics, which are the true test of the strength of the mind; and he is behind all the other races in mechanical inventiveness. ”

“ He must have died for his salvation also, as a part of mankind; and, therefore, I can see no danger of his being left outside of the pale of redemption, on account of his separate creation. But if he should not be embraced in it, God, who created him, will, in his infinite wisdom, justly provide for his ultimate destiny, whatever it may be, and is accountable to Himself, alone, for whatever disposition may be made of him. ”

“ Anciently, all the interior parts of Africa, lying south of Egypt, were called Ethiopia, and comprised those countries now called Nubia and Abyssinia. The black race who inhabited Ethiopia, were then called Ethiopeans; and every book we open, which treats of the Ethiopean or black Race; is involved in acknowledged obscurity. We find the great mass of the Race, in its own country, in a state of heathenism and barbarism ”

“ While Nature refuses to let the white man and the adulterated projeny of the fourth crossing, have any issue, she permits the female issue of that crossing and a black man of the original type to breed, and to breed on in a retrograding direction, until, after successive projenies, the black race resumes, as nearly as possible, its original type. ”

“ Now, white men—such as Bruce, Valliant, Park, Brown, Burton, Baker, Edwards, Speke, Grant, Du Chaillu, and Livingstone, visited Africa, as Explorers, and remained a long time in that hot climate, where, in some localities, the thermometer sometimes runs up as high as to 160 degrees, and when they returned home to their native land; their complexions, though slightly tanned by exposure, soon became the same as when they left it; and, at Capetown, on the southern coast of Africa, there is a dutch colony of white, who have been there, upwards of 200 years, without any change of complexion ”

“ But some Theologians say that if the Black man is not a lineal descendant from Adam, he is, consequently, left without a Savior; because, they say, that it was through the fall of Adam, that created the necessity of a Savior. ”

“ The black man's forehead is lower than the white man's. His skull is thicker than the white man's—so thich that they can carry great burthens on their heads, and can butt their heads together, like Rams or Bulls, when fighting. ”

“ Professor Blumenbach, a German Naturalist of some note, who, himself, recognized the five Races into which mankind is divided, in pandering to preconceived opinions through popular credulity, endeavored to prove their unity of descent from Adam, by showing, by way of illustration, a physical resemblance between man and the Hog; after which, he says there are different varieties of the Hog; which he alleges came from a common ancestor, as well as of man; and asserts that, in Piedmont, the Hogs are all black ”

“ My brother, we have been thinking over the proposition of our Great Father at Washington, to send teachers and set up schools among us. We are very thankful for the interest he takes in our welfare; but after much deliberation, have concluded to decline his offer. What will do very well for white men, will not do for red men. ”

“ The sexual amours of the black man are not chastened by those gentle, refined and tender sensibilities of Divine inspiration, like those of the white man. And, as proof that their sexual passions are grossly animal ”

“ The relative status of the inferiority of the black man is no fault of his, nor the fault of his Creator, whose indisputable sovereign pleasure it was to fix it at whatever standard he chose, as he did that of Man below the Angels. ”

“ In conclusion, I would say, without any undue prejudice towards any Race, or any class of the human family, that my reason and researches have brought me to the irresistable conclusions and belief:—
That Adam was not the primitive ancestor of the Black man; nor is the Black man a lineal descendant from Ham; or his degraded son, Canaan; or from that fratricidal murderer, Cain ”

“ In accounting for the darkening process, it is said that children of the black race are born nearly white, and that from the comparative smallness of their lungs, as compared with those of white children, they inhale a larger portion of carbon than of oxigen, and, that the excess of carbon, operating upon the pigmentary deposit, underlying the scarf skin, changes its color ”

“ Having made Nature and the Natural Sciences, my chief study, for the last half century, I submit the following pages to the public, as the result of my investigations relating to the enigmatical assumptions of the equality and unity of the white and colored races of mankind ”

“ Paul did not say that God made all men, of one blood; but "all Nations of men" of one blood, If it had been intended to apply indiscriminately to all men, merely as individuals, then the words "Nations of," would be mere surplusage; because, the simple expression, that God hath made of one blood, all men, or all mankind, would have fully expressed the idea of its general application to all men , irrespective of their nationalities. ”

“ And God has fixed the climatic bounds of their habitations and the habitations of other lower orders of the animal Kingdom, as definitely as Europe is fixed upon for Europeans; Asia for Asiatics; Africa for Africans, and America for Americans. ”

“ We look, in vain, for the evidence of any such miracle.
It is, however, claimed by some that the black man originally descended from Ham, upon whose son, Canaan, Noah pronounced a curse, to punish Ham for his indecent behaviour to his Father, (Noah,) when asleep, and, by which curse, it is claimed that the descendents of Ham were doomed to perpetual servitude; their skin blackened; their features flattened: and their hair changed to wool, &c. ”

“ But. if he returns to the house again and remains there a short time he will resume his fair complexion; but they say that it requires a long time for a hot climate to make a white man black. The celebrated European Naturalist, [Mr. Boyle,] says that "a black complexion cannot be produced by the heat of the climate; for though the heat of the sun may darken the color of the skin, experience does not show that it is sufficient to produce a true blackness like that of the Negroes." ”

“ Daniel Webster said, "If any gentleman from the South, shall propose a scheme, to be carried on by this government, upon a large scale, for the transportation of the colored people to any country, or any place in the world, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object." ”

“ As these, with their various shades, are the known complexions of the five different Races, or varieties into which the most eminent Naturalists have divided mankind, it is fair to presume that his complexion was like that of some one of their's. ”

“ For, in accordance with the science of Phrenology, the reasoning faculties are located in the front, and the animal passions in the back part of the cranium. And, consequently, the white man having more frontal brain than the Black man, it necessarily follows, that it gives him an intellectual superiority over him. ”

“ We must go according to the wishes of the Great Spirit, or we shall get into trouble. To know how to read and write, is very good for white men, but very bad for red men. It makes white men better, but red men worse. ”

“ Next to the Indian, ranks the brown Malayan, with his bushy hair; and lastly the black man, with his curly wool, who ranks the lowest in his claim to this wonderful and useful faculty; but neither of the colored races have risen to the ability of the white man, in the invention of intricate machinery—such as watches, clocks and steam engines ”

“ As evidence of the Black man s architectural talents, it has been claimed that he built the Pyramids of Egypt and other ancient structures: but that has been entirely refuted by modern discoveries; and ancient sculpture and paintings, all exhibit him in subordinate attitudes. ”