“Where was there ever a confederacy of republics united as these states are, or in which the people were so drawn together by religion, blood, language, manners, and customs?” ~ John Dickinson; Fabius Letters, #8
“Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people–a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.” ~ John Jay; The Federalist Papers, #2
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” ~ Thomas Jefferson; letter to George Washington on the physical removal of Africans from the United States; January 4, 1786
“To be consistent with existing and probably unalterable prejudices in the US, freed blacks ought to be permanently removed beyond the region occupied or allotted to a white population.” ~ James Madison; letter to Robert J. Evans; June 15, 1819
“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.” ~ Alexander Hamilton; The Examination, #8
“The number of purely white people in the world is proportionally very small. I should wish their numbers were increased. But perhaps I am partial to the complexion of my country, for such kind of partiality is natural to mankind.” ~ Benjamin Franklin; Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.
“I say, that, at the time I drew that constitution, I perfectly knew that there did not then exist such a thing in the Union as a black or colored citizen, nor could I then have conceived it possible such a thing could have ever existed in it; nor, notwithstanding all that has been said on the subject, do I now believe one does exist in it.” ~ Charles Pinckney; Admission of Missouri, House of Representatives, Annals 37:1129, 1134; Feb 13, 1821
Ask your social studies teacher what the Founding Fathers of America meant when they said these things. Hmm?
“Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people–a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.” ~ John Jay; The Federalist Papers, #2
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” ~ Thomas Jefferson; letter to George Washington on the physical removal of Africans from the United States; January 4, 1786
“To be consistent with existing and probably unalterable prejudices in the US, freed blacks ought to be permanently removed beyond the region occupied or allotted to a white population.” ~ James Madison; letter to Robert J. Evans; June 15, 1819
“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.” ~ Alexander Hamilton; The Examination, #8
“The number of purely white people in the world is proportionally very small. I should wish their numbers were increased. But perhaps I am partial to the complexion of my country, for such kind of partiality is natural to mankind.” ~ Benjamin Franklin; Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.
“I say, that, at the time I drew that constitution, I perfectly knew that there did not then exist such a thing in the Union as a black or colored citizen, nor could I then have conceived it possible such a thing could have ever existed in it; nor, notwithstanding all that has been said on the subject, do I now believe one does exist in it.” ~ Charles Pinckney; Admission of Missouri, House of Representatives, Annals 37:1129, 1134; Feb 13, 1821
Ask your social studies teacher what the Founding Fathers of America meant when they said these things. Hmm?