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''As there was never such a thing as a "melungeon" other than in the imaginations of children raised during an era when parents used the complexion related exonym,''
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Are you sure about that?
----"The platform of Feb 1856 which expunged and ignored the 12th section and in a letter which goes expressly for restoring the Missouri Compromise. The Mulungeons of Richmond endorsed the 'late convention' at Philadelphia too; but will any southern man-- a Stuart or an Imobdin even -- endorse this letter for the restoration of the Missouri Compromise.''
This- proves that the ticket is a mongrel ticket — that the offspring of it is,
as he had said, a mulatto, or, as he had better said, a Mulungeon !
Pamphlets. American History - Page 14
http://books.google.com/books?id=gaaMrUa6w-EC&q=american+history+pamphlets+mulengeons&dq=american+history+pamphlets+mulengeons&pgis=1
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From the Richmond Whig.
Letter from Hon. John M. Botts
Date: March 26, 1859
Location: Maryland
Paper: Easton Gazette
Article type: Letters
......when the Sheriff came to count up the votes at the close of the polls, they counted but five -- and if I had received the vote of one ''Molungeon,'' and he had been authorized by the Constitution to vote, and had 'had' a majority of only one--- it would have been difficult to tell, whether I was most indebted for my election to the "Molungeon" or to the Chief Justice of the U.S.; and if my competitor had received six "Molungeon" votes, or the votes of six worthless and degraded locofocos (supposing they could be any such) they would have more than balanced these five of the first men of the State could boast...........
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THE ORATORICAL OGRES AT WORK
GOGGIN SWALLOWED WHOLE
Date: March 28, 1859
Location: Alabama Paper: Daily Confederation
Thirteen congressional electors, fifty senatorial electors, and three hundred and sixty county electors have been notified to hold themselves in readiness to repel the Dragoon of Rockbridge. Botts too, will dash to the rescue at the head of a noble band of "Molungeons and Eboshins" as soon as the weather becomes sufficiently warm to render his odoriferous forces efficient.
http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/goggin.html
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by Making of America Project - 1863
The Slave Power; its Character, Career, and Probable Designs. By JE...
Continental monthly: devoted to... - Cornell University - Jan 1, 1863
"Whether their own children were sold may be imagined from an anecdote long current in Virginia, relative to ex-Governor Wise, who, in a certain law case where he was opposed by a Northern trader, decided of a certain slave, that the chattel, being a mulatto, was of more value than 'a molungeon.' And what, in the name of God, is a molungeon?' inquired the astonished 'Northern man." 'A mulatto' replied Wise, ' is the child of a female house-servant by 'young master' --a molungeon is the offspring of a field hand by a Yankee peddler."
Mr. Cairnes has, no doubt, not often heard of mulattoes--they constitute the great majority of Virginia slaves. But did he ever hear of a 'molungeons'?
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From Our Own Correspondent Fredericksburg,
January 10, 1864
Lincoln held a grand levee on New Year's day which the Chronicle states, was attended by the whole diplomatic corps and a brilliant assemblage of starred and barred military and naval officers. "The "Government organ," however, announces that the observed of all observers were four negroes, "of genteel exteriour, and with the manners " of gentlemen, who joined in the throng that 'crowded the Executive Mansion, and were cordially received by the President of the United State,'' The Molungeon Chronicle adds; -- We are not aware that anybody was hurt on the occasion, and we rejoice that we have a President who is a democrat in fact, as well as by nature."
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