Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1834-07-10

Complexion OF our S0Vt0vT.s-Dfs OOxM IN :.
York. in n recent address ON emancipation.
treated Of our prejudice in favor Of the Euro;
pean or white complexion. and again MI
other complications, and said that Jesus Christ
might be- called a COIOred man. TIE news
papers hostile to the cAsss advocated by Dr..
Cox. immediately raised M Ontcry against
him. accused him Of representing that our
Saviour was negro. and undertook to prove.
what nobody disputed. mat Inc Jewish and
African races were dissimilar !; that the fOr-
mer have not the "splay foot, cfoOked shin.
thick iips and crisped WOOL OF the !attcr.-
Docr. Cox has replied 10 the N. \. Journal Of
Commerce, and satisfactorily explained what
ha said Of the complexion Of the Savi0ur.--
In attempting 10 erAdicate the prejudice that
exists against colored persons, he remarked to
his hearers that the European race were the
minority that majority Of the human race
including the Asiatics and Africans. were more
or less colored, varying from slightest taWney
TO deepest black; that the ancient jews were
as really different from the Europeans ms both
were from the Africans. Hewarned bis hear.
ers not 10 indulge their inhuman prejndices,
as they might be found condemning the Saw
iour Of the world. who belonged not to the
European but to the Asiatic variety, and who,
we might say. was a celored man.
Such was his language. The sentiment is
not incorrect. though it might have been bet
ter expressed. II affords no foundation for
the newspaper assertion. that DR.. Cox had al
legged that our Saviour was 4 negro. AccOr-
ding Ia Blumcnbach and other writers. the co.
Tor the ancient Jews, Arabs, &c. WAS brown.
" How great and philosophical. as well
~ anti christian. (says DR.. Cox) the prejudice
Of us Americans against our colored brethren /;
that the sentiment which suardedly applied
to Jesus Christ should rouse the angry feel
logs of many. whose aversion to black char
acter is nothing 10 their de;estation Of CO.
lored skin, and whose hlindness mistakes Tor
pieiy. the antipathy which despisss the Gre
atOr in his creatures!"
neber and others suppose that the primitive
compile iOn Of the human race was half gay
between the two extremes Ofwhite and black /;
that Adam and Eve were c0prErscOlOred. or
brown; that their descendanty who emigra-
ted to the cold climate Of the north gradually
assumed lighter and Gairer tint, while those
who proceeded 10 the warm regions Of the
south became dark brown. deep olive, or black.
Hampshire Gasette.
A Sailor a Chnrch.--A "Joly Yankee Jack Of
Blue," fresh IRON she Potomac. on craise among
the fresh water Iabbers, came up in The steamboat
Herald. yesterday, and made his appearance Al the
Rev. Nj. Cages church. With curious Ieer OF BIZ
eye aod twist Of his gaid he took his seat upon the
threshold ofihs door. During the sermon. Jack gave
sBadry tokens Of approval: and wben he was nearl,
ended, ne rose, walked deliberately up 20 tho desk
aud deposited heGare the asonisbed preacher. qar
sv Of dollar! adding in whisper, . l cant siol
any losaer!" He then tsrUed 20 sIe audience. bowed
repeatedly. and iihe house. -Dnnaa6ie ~. H. Tel