Excerpt: "So 'stands the ease between the sections. If the anti slavery party was based on truth - if the negro, except in color, was a man like ourselves - if social subordination of this negro was wrong, and the four millions of these people at the South entitled to the same liberty as ourselves and if the men who made this government designed it to include them".
John H. Van Evrie (1814–1896)[2] was an American physician and defender of slavery best known as the editor of the Weekly Day Book and the author of several books on race and slavery which reproduced the ideas of scientific racism for a popular audience. Van Evrie was described by the historian George M. Fredrickson as "perhaps the first professional racist in American history." His thought, which lacked significant scientific evidence even for the time, emphasized the inferiority of black people to white people, defended slavery as practiced in the United States and attacked abolitionism, while opposing class distinctions among white people and the oppression of the white working class. He repeatedly put "slave" and "slavery" in quotation marks, because he did not think these were the right words for enslaved Blacks.