Re: Meanwhile, far from the moral panic, in the history books...
The Cornerstone Speech
"Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. "
-- Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861 (a few weeks before the Confederacy would start the American Civil War).