{"id":19338,"date":"2011-12-29T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19338"},"modified":"2016-05-22T21:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T21:03:38","slug":"and-when-he-reaches-manhood-he-invades-the-nigger-quarters-to-place-himself-in-the-endearing-relation-of-paternity-to-half-niggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19338","title":{"rendered":"…and when he reaches manhood, he invades the nigger quarters, to place himself in the endearing relation of paternity to half niggers."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Slavery Democracy prates<\/a> and chaters about \u2018negro equality, \u2018Black Republicans,\u2019 and \u2018nigger stealing,\u2019 to use its classic phrase and improved orthography<\/a>. It has or affects to have, a great horror of \u2018niggers.\u2019 And any one who advocates the principles of human Freedom, as they were enunciated and laid down in enduring forms by the Fathers of the Republic, is a \u2018woolly head,\u2019 and these same Democrats have learned to speak of them with a peculiar nasal twist. You would suppose that these gentlemen, whose olfactories are so sensitive and acute, never saw a nigger except in a menagerie<\/a>. And yet, would you believe it, the very first service rendered to him on earth is performed by a nigger; as an infant, he draws the milk, which makes his flesh and blood and bones, from the breast of a nigger; looks up in her face and smiles, and calls her by the endearing name of \u2018mammy<\/a>,\u2019 and begs, perhaps, in piteous tones, for the privilege of carrying \u2018mammy\u2019 to the Territories; he is undressed and put to bed by a nigger, and nestles during the slumbers of infancy in the bosom of a nigger; he is washed, dressed and taken to the table by a nigger, to eat food prepared by a nigger; he is led to school by a nigger; every service that childhood demands is performed by a nigger, except that of chastisement, which, from the absence of good manners in many cases, it is to be feared is not performed at all. When down appears on his lip, the tonsorial<\/a> service is performed by a nigger; and when he reaches manhood, he invades the nigger quarters, to place himself in the endearing relation of paternity to half niggers<\/a>.<\/strong> Finally, if he should be ambitious, it may occur that he will come to congress to represent a constituency, three-fifths of whom are niggers, and talk about \u2018Black Republicans,\u2019 \u2018amalgamation<\/a>,\u2019 \u2018nigger equality,\u2019 \u2018nigger stealing,\u2019 and the offensive odor of niggerism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Honorable Owen Lovejoy<\/a>, of Illinois<\/a>\u00a0(and \u201cconductor\u201d on the Underground Railroad<\/a>), \u201cThe Democracy and \u2018Niggers\u2019<\/a>,\u201d Franklin Repository<\/em>, April 20, 1859, page 5, column 6. http:\/\/valley.lib.virginia.edu\/news\/fr1859\/pa.fr.fr.1859.04.20.xml#05<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Slavery Democracy prates and chaters about \u2018negro equality, \u2018Black Republicans,\u2019 and \u2018nigger stealing,\u2019 to use its classic phrase and improved orthography. It has or affects to have, a great horror of \u2018niggers.\u2019 And any one who advocates the principles of human Freedom, as they were enunciated and laid down in enduring forms by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8445,8446],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-franklin-repository","tag-owen-lovejoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47074,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions\/47074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}