The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

sympathizing with him in the hope of cheating us
out of our rightful conquests.”[7]
“It is a favorite notion now to quote the words,
‘Governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the
governed,’ as if these embodied a law of
application to all inhabitants a like.... It was never
the intention [of the signers of the Declaration] to
assert that the negroes or the savage race must give
consent before just government should be
established over them.... The Declaration of
Independence was a formal notice that the
inhabitants of the colonies consented no longer to
British rule.”[8]
“We would inform Senator Vest that the idea
that all men are created equal is not the
fundamental law of this country. The Fathers had
better sense than to put that phrase in the
Constitution. They wrote it in the Declaration,
which was simply their manifesto to European
powers, and is not law.”[9]
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