“The offspring of the two races is a hybrid—the offspring whose progression, though not limited like that of some of the lower animals to the first generation, is nevertheless so arrested by lunacy, idiocy, blindness, deafness and dumbness, and other the most crushing infirmities ‘that flesh is heir to,’ that it can never become the sound parental stock of self-maintaining population.” —Virginia Governor James McDowell (1795-1851)
“Extracts from the Speech of Gov. McDowell, of Virginia,” The Columbus Enquirer (Columbus, Georgia: April 10, 1849, page 1, columns 2-4). (Source: Georgia Historic Newspapers). http://enquirer.galileo.usg.edu/enquirer/view?docId=news/cwe1849/cwe1849-0053.xml.