The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-27
Il. ~. wicked and oppressive

'y'''m beeiu at home, every man al DIS owl
let Z" that alone God requires us to do
b''''' : our servants as we ought to 'rea
ki Us i've. .,r.,, our slaves as Moses instruote'
th'1n' 80 treat their slaves, twhO. as ours are
h''s1 mother people, and not Jsw',l and !
E''s o. !, vrOfane to say that when the slAv
ESula W. ''.,orsl master appear at the bar
and =. latter will not be required to answer 70
Co.. 'n' having held the negro in bondage Blu
TIE 81 V -. in which he dealt by him.
fL US s,a.. who take superficial view Of thing
10 a,,0l,r fact, that the friends Of abolition
,,s.r.ut forms, with few exceptions d.
pol 'F'I Us. the Bible the most literally. Mod
Tnp psa.n,hrOpy is not satisfied with the doc
en- fH ~. Rible; they are too hard for IT,
VIZ Il ,ujs.vOr to show at another time s tha' I'M
VII - ss5.,n philanthropy is always found Il
''n' -.o,i,tiOn with mental condition from
'is - "a. f,;,pds Of freedom and good govern
E'''I , :" n0,bing to hope. II is not because
n'n' "A IuII our cOnsciences to sleeP,and avoi'
-, auty as philanthrOPists and christians
' aS ;. now oppose the abolition Of slavery III
~ -. Apart from the various other con-
A'A' which forbid it. feeling Of some
'o''- !, the future welfare Of the negro, is
n,,' n,ops Of the most weighty considerations
80 that under the workings Of the slavery
W." .-,;on he is being elevated in the scale OF
D''''- So Wesay that to change their present
h''I ''..,r either BY setting them free among
' -, causing them to be sold to the Southern
',., and sugar planter, so far as the negroes
.T'.,,oLv are concerned, would be doing our
-. Greatest injury We could possibly in
-. ,bsm. If, as the Louisville Commit
-.;,,,ip. there will always be aneed for
hundred thousand negroes in Kentucky
- ,b.t the time may not be very far distant
-, slaves will be so much improved that
I'LL he no objection to liberating them
J.rov;ng them 10 remain among US, which
a--..ls aver be done safely and without in
;, .tbsr party would be great desidera'
tum. p,,-.-,
- IN confirmation as TO what have said
81. condition Of the negro race IN Egypt
r., the Pyramids were built, and as TO the ei-
,-,,r,iyilisstion in improving him in a state
,Sl,,.,v II was not my intention to make
-. .bort extract from the Edinburgh Re-
= I'm, in thus summarily noticing the arti-
=. ,.f.,r.d 10, | have only followed the exam
a, oNr Naecauley and other Reviewers,
.bo.s practice is to name book and then not
,.s.,to il again. On my part, however, il was
.l,o,.tbsr unintenlional. "The negro type is
an. which is not unfrequenily cited as an exam
nl. Ofthe psrmanence of the physical characters
a rssss. The existing Ethiopian Physiogno-
said 10 agree precisely with the rePresen-
,.,iOn. transmitted 10 Us from the remotest pc
riO3,. ia those marvellous pictures, whose pre-
..,,.tiou in the tOmbs and temples Of Egypt
Ia, revealed to Us much Of the inner life Of one
If The mos, snciently civilised nations Of the
Esrld, and the PhysiOgpomy, it is further main
tsusj, continaes at present identically the same
from parent to child, even where the Transports
ton Of negTO population TO temperate climates
and eiyised associates { as in the United States
has entirely changed the external conditions Of
hsir existence. Nov il is perfectly true that
ii. negro races which have made no advance in
cyiIisalOn, retain the PrOgnathous character
even in temperate regions and il is precisely
what We should expect. But it is not true, when
hey have made any progress in eivilisation, that
they remain equally unaltered.
4" In regard to the trsnsPlanted negroes. it is
obvious that the time which has elapsed since
their removal, is as yet too short TO expect any
considerable alteration Of cranial eonfguration.
Many Of the negroes now living in the West In
Gas are natives Of Africa, and large proportion
Of the negro population, both there and in the
UEiisd States, are removed by no more than one
or two descents from African ancestors. But
according to the concurrent testimony Of dis
uRg1ished observers, both in the West Indies
and in the United States, an approximation 10
TIE negro physiOgnomy 10 the European model
. progressively taking place, in instances in
which, although there has beenno intermiKture
Of European blood, the influence OF higher
eivilisatOn has been powerfully exercised for a
lsngthsned period. The case Of negroes employ
domestic servants is particularly noticed
d.. Hancock, Of Guiana, even asserts that it is
frequently not at all difficult TO distinguish ne
groOf pure blood belonging to the Dutch por-
Lon Of the colony, from another belonging to
The English settlem ents, by the correspondence
between the features and expression of each,
and those which are characteristic of their re-
aPsetVs masters The alteration, too, is not
confined to a change Of form in the skull, or TO
ths dimhution Of the projection Of the upper
l'Ei but il is seen also in the general figure,
'Ad IN the form Of the soft parts, as the lips and
'hs nose And Mr. Lyell, "the Geologist," was
''sOrsd' during his recent tour in America, by
numerous medical men residing in the slave
SA'es' mat gradual approximation was taking
pace IN the cOnhguratiOn Of the head and body
o. NE hsgre' TO the European model, each sue
''''se generation exhibiting an improvement
F" 'Asse respects. The change was most APP
parent IN such as are brought into closest and
most habitusl relation with the whites, (as BY
Domestic Servitude) without any actual inter
MIXTURE OF races-a fact which the difference
VI complexion in the offspring would at once
0'usy"-P. 22s-3O, Edinburgh Rsriep.
MosEs.
Fs'-Ihe above was written when the Ex.
sn'hsf Of the 10Th was received. The editors
''P'aAsiOn Of the omission to print the typo
graphical errors is entirely satisfactory. II the,
WINK That ! intended 10 do them injustice the,
are under mistake; II is not now worth Will
" maze the corrections. In my next, I will
-''ce 'he substance Of the criticisms. M.