But miscegenation in the south has already taken place. It has been on the road over 200 years.

Governor Northen says that miscegenation by law will never, take place in the south. But miscegenation in the south has already taken place. It has been on the road over 200 years. Not miscegenation by law, but by brute force, which is the very worst form of law. Who started it? Not the negroes, I am sure, nor was it the poor white trash. It was the blue vein aristocracy of the south that broke over the fence, defied all law, and the result is we have black negroes and white negroes, some of them as white as Governor Northen.

Joseph W. Henderson, “An Answer to Northen: The Son of a Slave Mother on Southern Miscegenation,” The Daily Star (via: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library), June 19, 1899, page 1 (column 1). http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H9AwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WooDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5707%2C959988

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