The race question is written by John Tyler Morgen and is a repercussion for the ballot boxes and equal rights legally and in the society. It is also a depiction of how the south thought about negros at that time. Morgen was six term US senator and a general in the Confederate State army. He was also an ex- slave holder. He wrote this essay to beat the two Reconstruction bills at that time called the Force Bill and the Blaire Bill. The Blair bill was helpful in dealing with the funds to tackle illiteracy in the states. The Force bill was a way to deny the blacks to vote by providing federal supervision in elections. In this essay Morgan argues to prove the point that the Negro race in the most inferior race to the whites and that they were meant to be the inferior race and act as slaves for the whites.
Morgen claims that even if people did not claim the negros to be inferior because of their color there is also a mental difference in which they are inferior to the whites, “The mental difference and differing traits, including the faculty of governing, forecast, enterprise, and the wide field of achievement in arts and sciences”. He also thought that this race difference is created by the god himself and it was the law of nature as god created for the negros to be inferior, “ The social and political questions connected to the African race, in the United States, all relate to and depend upon the essential differences between the negro and white man, as they have been arranged by the hand of the Creator”.
After this Morgan shifts to some political viewpoints that he is against. He feels that if they are made and able to go and vote it would give them that social power and have more political influence and have that feeling of power and which would prevent the shutdown of the negro race completely. It is the central and vital point in the race question. “If the negroes, being our equals in political privileges, could be absorbed into our race, as equals, there would be no obstacle to our harmonious and beneficent association, in this free country, but neither laws, nor any form of constraint, can force the doors to our homes and seat them by our firesides. By this morgen wants to tell the readers that irrespective of their voting rights and their position in the society be it equal to us, still there will be a sense of inferiority when the white come across negros.
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