The Concord (New Hampshire) Democrat Standard editorializes against racial equality: “The proposition that the Negro is equal by nature, physically and mentally, to the white man seems to be so absurd and preposterous, that we cannot conceive how can be entertained by any intelligent and rational white man.”
[restored 10/3/2026]
The Boston (Massachusetts) Daily Courier editorializes against racial equality: “[W]e believe the mulatto [mixed race] to be inferior in capacity, character, and organization to the full-blooded black, and still farther below the standard of the white races.”
[restored 10/3/2026]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article I of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War, (Roseville, California: Prima Publishing, 2002), 31-32.