Excerpt from Speech of James M'dowell, Jr. (Of Rockbridge) In the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Slave Question: Delivered Saturday, January 21, 1832 But it is not in this relation, not as a laborer of equal or of less capability than the white man, that the negro has been considered; he has been considered chiefly as an alien element in the composition of our civil society, as constituting a class which cannot. Be otherwise than perpetually distinct - necessarily discordant with that which go verns him - between whom a common sympathy is impossible, and whose existing rights admit of no It 18 under this View of the negro' s situation here, that the case of gradual emancipation has been argued-that the question has been put and controverted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.