"Every thing great or beneficent in our national history is the work of American 'slaveholders.'"
— J.H. Van Evrie, 1853
"The Negro is not a black white man, or a man merely with a black skin, but a DIFFERENT AND INFERIOR SPECIES OF MAN."
— J.H. Van Evrie, 1853
"Female abolitionists stand ready and willing to surrender themselves and to become the mothers of a degraded race of wooly headed mulattoes."
— James Kirke Paulding, 1836
"The colored tenants of the Five Points are infinitely more degraded and debased than the untutored Indians in the howling wilderness."
— New-York Sun , 1834
"It is a self evident and imperative duty to retain these inferior negroes in that natural subordination eternally fixed by the hand of the Almighty."
— Weekly Day Book , 1856
"This is a republic of white men—a nation of pure Caucasians — a political community of twenty millions of the noblest, freest, most intelligent and most advanced of their race."
