# An Essay on the Origin and Relative Status of the White and Colored Races of Mankind/Complimentary Notices

COMPLIMENTARY NOTICES.
Among the numerous complimentary letters I have received, relating to my Essay on the Races, since its publication, the following from S.W. Buck, Esq., of this (Bradford) county; Judge Elwell, of Columbia county; and the Rev. Jas. A. Davidson, the late eloquent State Temperance Lecturer of Pennsylvania, and now of Ohio; E. D. Kennedy, Esq., an eminent lawyer, and W. Cochraueel, Esq., the talented editor of the Louisville (Ky.) Commercial, with highly complimentary editorial notices from the Bradford Argus and Towanda Business Item, of this place, and other papers elsewhere, will show that my views on that subiect are fully endorsed, so far as they are known, by the talent and learning of the country.
LeRaysville, Pa., April 20, 1872.
My Dear General: I have perused, with great satisfaction and pleasure, your Essay on the origin of the White and Colored Races, and am indebted to you for clearing up—completely—many things concerning the status of the African race. The profound research and indefatigable perseverance you have given the subject have made many of the points in your arguments unanswerable, aud entitle you to the respect of the American public for clearing up the subject which no one else has done in a satisfactory and indisputable manner. Accept my sincere thanks for the work, and believe me
Gen. W, Patton, Yours very truly,
Blooomsburg, March 13, 1872.
Gen. Wm. Patton—Dear Sir: I received a few days since your "Essay on the Origin and Relative Status of the White and Colored Races," and have been much instructed by its perusal. Your reasoning to prove that there are distinct and separate creations, presents that subject in a clear and intelligent light aud goes far to establish the soundness of your position.
I shall preserve this pamphlet for reference, whenever occasion may require consideration of the subject of which it treats.
Yours truly,
Wm. Elwell.
Erie, Pa., February 17, 1872.
Gen. W. Patton—Dear Friend and Brother: Please accept the thanks of Mrs. Davidson and myself for your very interesting and ably written pamphlet "on the Origin and Relative Status of the White and Colored Races." We have been much interested in its perusal, as have some of our neighbors who have been in and looked over it. I must say that you display great ability in the work, and it will be difficult to refute your ideas. May Heaven bless you and long spare your useful life.I1 have received a commission to lecture for G.L. of Ohio, and so will not visit your county.
Truly yours,
Jas. A. Davidson.
Louisville, Ky., February 17, 1872.
Gen. Patton, Towanda, Pa.: Dear General,—Although an entire stranger to you, I take the liberty of addressing you to request of you the favor of a perusal of a work on the races ami origin of men. This work of yours is much spoken of here for its originality of thought and the boldness of its conclusions. Its independence in reasoning and conclusions is said to be quite refreshing when placed beside the hacknied and old time opinions upon this most interesting but most lamentably abused field of scientific and scholarly research. If you have not a copy to spare, pray oblige me with the name of the publisher that I may apply to him.
Truly your friend,
E.D. Kennedy.
Louisville, Ky., March 18, 1872.
Gen. Patton: Your work on the "Origin and Status of the White and Colored Races," is attracting much attention here in literary and scientific circles. As only one or two persons have possession of the work, I take the liberty of asking you to send me a copy. The theories and arguments advanced by you are of such a startling character that even those who have been inclined to concede to Darwin all that is claimed for him, are looking at your work with critical and enquiring eyes. There is a brilliant originality and plausibility in all the leading features of your work, that causes thinkers to regard it as one of the most valuable papers of the age. I can only repeat what the learned savant of this section, Col. Aaron Fontaine, has said, that "Gen. Patton has produced the most startling truths that have been advanced in this age." * * Accept my congratulations for the success with which your great effort has been crowned. I believe it will do good, and obtain wide celebrity for yourself, the talented author; and for the views advanced, God bless you, and keep your intellect clear.
I remain respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
W. Cochraneel,
Editor Louisville Commercial.
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