Leonidas Spratt on Inequality

May 11, 2012 Hunter Wallace History, Negroes, Race Relations, South Carolina 7

South Carolina

H/T SNN

Palmetto Patriot has continued digging through archives of the secession commissioners and has turned up this quote from Leonidas Spratt who was the South Carolina commissioner to Florida:

“The one embodies the social principle that equality is the right of man; the other, the social principle that equality is not the right of man, but the right of equals only.”

This is one of a multitude of examples that illustrates the ideological clash between Enlightenment-based liberal republicanism and Greco-Roman-based classical republicanism.

Note: No one meditated more deeply on the implications of racial inequality on republican political theory than Antebellum Southerner like John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh.

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7 Comments

  1. excellent hunter, this stuff needs to be in textbooks, i swear to “odin” by the time i have grey heair it will be!

  3. Wow, what a GREAT statement. “The rights of equals only.”

    It ranks up there with that great clarifier for me of ‘love your enemy,’ by the Orthodox saint Theodosius: “Live in peace not only with your friends but with your enemies; but only with your personal enemies and not with the enemies of God.”

    That absolves one of a lot of CRAP about ‘loving one’s ideological enemies,’ who clearly are anathema to God- Jews, Communists, Sodomites, Feminazis, etc.

    One is biblical and patristic; the other is utter ROT.

  4. I used to live in Columbia, South Carolina, about five minutes from where Carter Strange was attacked and beaten by a mob. I had just gotten out of the Army and was ready to relax, and take advantage of my GI Bill. I can say without hyperbole or equivocation, that THEY exponentially increase the symptoms of PTSD, and maybe can cause the disorder in the first place.

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