Chapter XX: Climatic and Industrial Adaptation

How the Earth is Divided—Its Fauna and Flora—All Organized Beings
have their Centres of Existence peculiar to Themselves—No such
thing as the Creation of the same Species in Different Centres
of Life—The more elevated the Organism, the less subject to
External Circumstances—Incapacity of the Negro to Live in
Northern Latitudes—Their Miserable Condition and Rapid
Extinction in Canada—Industrial Adaptation of the Caucasian to
Intemperate Latitudes—Why white Labor is worth more than that of
the Negro at the North—Industrial Adaptation of the Negro to
Tropical and Tropicoid Products—Absurdity of the Ordinance of
1787—The Acquisition of Southern Territory always saves the
North from so-called Negro Slavery—“Extension of Slavery” vital
to both White and Black—Absolute Necessity of Negro Labor in the
Tropics—Production, and therefore Civilization, otherwise
Impossible 245

CHAPTER XXI.

NORTH AND SOUTH—THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN IDEA OF GOVERNMENT.

The Progenitors of our so-called Slaves, though mainly Imported at
the North, ultimately found their way South—Difference between
the Early Colonists of both Sections of the Country—Virginia
Mainly Settled by the Cavaliers—The Southern Leaders the
Originators and Upholders of our Present System of
Government—The Presence of the Negro, in his Natural Condition,
conducive to the Equality of White Men—The Harmony of Southern
Society—The Interests of “Slaveholder” and “Non-Slaveholder,”
and of Master and “Slave” are Indivisible—The Presence of the
Negro in his Normal Condition the Happiest Event in Human
Affairs, etc. 270

CHAPTER XXII.

THE ALLIANCE OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS.

The Antagonism of Ideas after the Constitution was formed—The Two
Opposing Leaders, Hamilton and Jefferson, in Washington’s
Cabinet—Hamilton’s Financial Policy Wrong—The British System—The
Alien and Sedition Laws—British “Liberty”—Conflict of Labor and
Capital—The Producing Classes at the North without Leaders—The
Wealth and Power in the hands of the Federalists—At the South
the Slaveholders were Producers—Mr. Jefferson’s Declaration that
they were the Allies of the Northern Laborers True—The Kentucky
and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 the True Exposition of our
Federal System—Civil Revolution of 1800 293

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO.

The Number of Negroes on this Continent—The “Free”
Negro—Impossibility of his Living out the Life of the White
Man—The “Free” Negroes of Virginia and Maryland—The Drawback of
the “Free” Negro Population—Its Dangerous Elements—Its Immoral
Character—Its Tax on the Laboring Classes—Its Ultimate
Extinction—Slavery in Brazil and Cuba—The White Man Degraded
there—Social Danger—Tropical Civilization—Intellect of the White
Man, and the Labor of the Negro Essential to it—The Condition of
Jamaica—White Blood being Extinguished—The Tendency of the
British System to Force Negroes to a Forbidden Level with White
Men—Negro Officials—Knighting a Negro—The Effect of Legal and
Social Equality—The Extinction of the White Race in the West
Indies only a Question of Time—The Negro Returning to
Savagism—Hayti—Terrible Results of the British Anti-Slavery
Policy—An African Heathenism in America 309

CHAPTER XXIV.