The claim, I believe is that there had always been a race aversion naturally for thousands of years and that blacks are inherently of a lower status than whites. He also tries to convince his readers that blacks were practically forced to conform with white people, which had created more strife and hardships for the black person.
His reasons most likely stem from his religious upbringings mixed his extreme conservative political views. He mentions in the passage that there could be a chance that the African American could vote their way to forming a group that outliers the white person and creates them as an inferior race to the African American. This outlandish thought could have been a reason to convince his readers that allowing citizenship to African Americans was a bad idea.
The evidence comes from testimony of Morgan himself. Some quotes include:
“The fruitful cause of strife has invited constant but futile effort on the part of the negro race and their political masters to force them, by political pressure and by acts of Congress, upon the white races as equals.”
“This condition would not have been so pronounced, if the negro race had not been forced, unprepared and disqualified, into the exercise of the full rights and powers incident to citizenship.”
“No expression of race aversion could be more distinct than this.”
No counter argument and no rebuttal. His counter argument could be him saying that the founding fathers created a constitution in order for us to have freedoms, but we unfortunately took it out of context.
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