Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1851,

BY JOHN CAMPBELL,

in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District

NEGROMANIA.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER,

THAT there are various races of men now upon our globe, none will deny. These are composed of black, white, brown, yellow, fair, Caucasian, Mongolian, Malay, Indian, Negro, Saxon, Celtic, Sclavonic, Australian, Tasmanian, Gipsey, Jew, Arab, Copt, Nubian, with an endless variety. The most arbitrary distinctions have been made to endeavor to classify the races of man: one asserts that all are descended from one pair, another entirely dissents from this view, all are equal says the ignorant fanatic, negroes and red men as well as whites. It seems to me therefore a work not only of necessity but of justice, to place this matter in a compact method before the people of America.

The method I have adopted is very simple. I cite all that I deem of importance to the subject under investigation, from an author; and then, if I consider it necessary, I comment upon such passages as may need explanation. To me it matters little whether the public will receive the contents of the following pages favorably or otherwise. It will be all one a hundred years hence.

I do not profess any originality, but I lay claim to some tact in the arrangement of my quotations.

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When I consider how little is really known of the history of the races of men, when I know that it would take hundreds of dollars to purchase all the books that I have read upon the subject, and when I also know that but few poor men have the means of obtaining these books, I therefore have attempted to popularize this question by citing such portions of the best authors as have written upon it.

I may as well explain the reasons which induced me to arrange my ideas in the following manner :

I am a member of the Social Improvement Society of Philadelphia. A question was brought before it for discussion, of which the following is a transcript: 'Can the Colored races of men be made mentally, politically and socially equal with the white?' The discussion of this question was continued for eight successive Sunday evenings. The speakers were various and talented; among the most prominent, were Eugene Ahern, E. W. Power, B. F. Mayers, Robert Boyle, Thomas Phillips, John O'Byrne James Eddison, Wm. Brotherhead, Ralph Smith, whites;

Bower, Purvis, Rev. Mr. Ward, colored; all shades of color were permitted to participate, each speaker was allowed ten minutes at a time, the greatest latitude, and I may say longitude, were allowed to the disputants, every shade of authority was quoted. I grant in many instances not too learnedly. A Doctor Longshore also lectured during the discussion. I myself lectured upon it, at the termination of the debate; in about two weeks afterwards, a Mr. Johnson, a mulatto, lectured in the Franklin Hall, upon the same subject; the por

tions taken by Mr. Johnson were, that the ancient Egyptians were negroes, and that they were the originators of the arts and sciences. The discussion and lectures were carried on in the Franklin Hall, and were attended by about nine hundred or one thousand persons. The only lectures which were not free to criticism were Mr. Johnson's. The Social Improvement Society acts thus-any man of ability can have its rostrum to speak one hour upon such subject as he chooses, but he must allow one hour's discussion after his lecture.

I may remark that the Social Improvement Society is not answerable for any opinion expressed in the following pages. I know that there are many members, who conscientiously differ from me upon this as well as upon other subjects, but there each and all of us have adopted the idea of Jefferson that it is only by fair and free discussion that truth will ever be able to overcome falsehood; let us therefore take the motto of the apostle "prove all things, hold fast that what is good;" "Fiat justitia ruat cælum."

The arguments I heard uttered by the different speakers afforded me the idea of offering my views in a more connected manner to the public, in a written form, than I did orally before the audiences in the Franklin Hall.

The question as above stated, to wit: "can the colored races of men be made mentally, politically and socially equal with the white?" I mean to examine in the course of this book and by citing such authorities as to me appear the best acquainted with ethnology endeavor to counteract the

sickly sentimentalism, the maudlin philosophy and pseudo philanthropy, oft times amounting to treason either through the folly or wickedness of the men who advocate negro-ology.

The great advocate of the equality of races is Prichard. He sat down to his task predetermined in favor of the negro and of the colored races of men -"Grant me a place said Archimedes to set my lever and I will move the world."-"Grant me my premises says Prichard, and I will draw deductions to prove the verity of these premises." This Mr. Prichard can do; this any man can do; there is no difficulty in the matter at all.

I follow no theory. I adopt no one's views in particular, it is only when I find one author corroborating another that I adopt their positions.

I take it for granted that no dark race of men has ever been equal to a white race.-Equal numbers ceteris paribus, the dark race must submit to the fair, the two cannot exist together in the same community on terms of equality-I speak not here of the justice or injustice of the matter, I only speak of the fact! the whole history of the world proves it. It is an actual. fact, a truth, a reality, as it was five thousand years ago so was it four and three and and two and one thousand years ago—so is it to day, that the dark race had always to yield to the superior intellect of the white-never at any given time from the most infinitely remote antiquity until now, has there ever appeared a race of negroes, that is men with woolly heads, flat noses, thick and protruding lips, who has ever emerged from a state of