Daily national intelligencer

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4th. The negro and other interior races have never, under

the most favored circumstances, shown any capacity for self

government or civilization.

5th. The negro attains his nearest approach to civilization

among the whites, in a subordinate capacity and when sepa

rated from them relapses into barbarism, as in Hayti and

Jamaica.

6th. The brain of the negro is nine cubic inches less than

that of the white man, and the large-headed races have always

rub d the earth, and been the only repositories of true civili

zation.

7 th. The idea that the brain of the negro or any other race

can be enlarged and the intellect developed by education,

continued through successive generations, has no foundation

in truth, or any semblance of support from history.

8th. The races of men, like those of the canines and other ani

mals, though modified by climates, are never transformed into

each other. The white man, the negro, the Jew, the grey

hound, the foxhound, the pointer. preserve their types and

instincts in all climates.

9th. The blacks, like the

American

Indians. Tartars, and

other nomadic races, are instinctively opposed to agricultural

labor, and no necessity can drive them to it.

10th. Slavery is the normal condition of the negro, the most

advantageous to him, and the most ruinous, in the end, to a

white nation.

Now, sir, I hope von will believe me sincere in the declara

tion, that in what i have above written 1 have been actuated

bv no sectional feeling or blind prejudice. I have asserted no

fact which is not established by science and history have ut

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1866). Washington City [D.C.], 1866-02-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1866-02-08/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1866-02-08.