{"id":31362,"date":"2013-05-27T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31362"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:51:11","slug":"is-nevertheless-so-arrested-by-lunacy-idiocy-blindness-deafness-and-dumbness-and-other-the-most-crushing-infirmities-%e2%80%98that-flesh-is-heir-to%e2%80%99-that-it-can-never-become-the-sound-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31362","title":{"rendered":"is nevertheless so arrested by lunacy, idiocy, blindness, deafness and dumbness, and other the most crushing infirmities \u2018that flesh is heir to,\u2019 that it can never become the sound parental stock of self-maintaining population."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe offspring of the two races is a hybrid\u2014the 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 \u2018that flesh is heir to,\u2019 that it can never become the sound parental stock of self-maintaining population.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_McDowell\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Governor James McDowell<\/a> (1795-1851)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/enquirer.galileo.usg.edu\/enquirer\/view?docId=news\/cwe1849\/cwe1849-0053.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Extracts from the Speech of Gov. McDowell, of Virginia<\/a>,\u201d <em><a href=\"http:\/\/enquirer.galileo.usg.edu\/enquirer\/search\" target=\"_blank\">The Columbus Enquirer<\/a><\/em> (Columbus, Georgia: April 10, 1849, page 1, columns 2-4). (Source: Georgia Historic Newspapers). <a href=\"http:\/\/enquirer.galileo.usg.edu\/enquirer\/view?docId=news\/cwe1849\/cwe1849-0053.xml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/enquirer.galileo.usg.edu\/enquirer\/view?docId=news\/cwe1849\/cwe1849-0053.xml<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe offspring of the two races is a hybrid\u2014the 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 \u2018that flesh is heir to,\u2019 that it can never become the [&hellip;]<\/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":[14791,13476,14789,14790],"class_list":["post-31362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-columbus-enquirer","tag-georgia-historic-newspapers","tag-james-mcdowell","tag-the-columbus-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362","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=31362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43165,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31362\/revisions\/43165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}