From the Virginia State Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830:
"But I am told that Universal Suffrage, (I am no advocate for Universal Suffrage,) or more correctly General Suffrage, was the invention of the age of the Lord Protector Cromwell--that it sprung up for the first time, during the Commonwealth of England. It is called novel doctrine. Were it so, that would not prove it false. Steamboats are a novel invention, and many other useful arts are comparative novelties. The new race of men which modern science has created and made, is a new invention. I mean the wooden, brazen and iron men, which neither eat, drink, sleep, nor get tired; which are adults without being infants, full grown men as soon as born. These new men, these novelties, are likely to be a very useful race; for when inspired by steam, they are as rational as our black population. England has two hundred millions of them, and these United States have more than ten million of them. They are all revolutionists and will as certainly revolutionize the world as ever did the art of printing, or any conquering invader." --Delegate Campbell, p.388"Inspired by steam." The fantastic conquerings of human ingenuity, and of course, the so-deeply ingrained that it is almost background white supremacy.
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