The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-24
From the ~ 0. Delta
DR.. Cartwright's Lecture on the PysloIogy Of
the Negro Race.


orous and well-written article in the Delta. OF
Friday morning last, misquotes, Internationally,
no doubt, DR.. Cartwrights report to the medical
association, on the negro race, in supposing that
she contends that The negroes are des ended from
me same common progenitor as The race thai pro-
duced James Hogg and Sir Francis Bacon
The report Of DR.. Cartwright contends for no
such thing. 1t simply contends that the. pecu-
lar physiological laws Of the negro pDq4lilntion
and his anatomical structure, 90 far from stand
ing in opposition to the Bible, prove the truth
of that book ; because the inspired writings
make repeated mention Of a slave race Of people,
called submissive kneebenders," j. e. Canaanites,
whom the Jews reduced to slavery, and took
their country from them by divine authority. DR.
c. shows that the negroes we have among US,
belong to the slave race ofpeople mentioned in
the sacred writings and be brings forward an
atomy and physiology to prove that they do be-
long to it. The Gbeonites, who were portion
of the Canaanites, or slave race, sold themselves
to the Jewsjust as the same slave race IN Africa,
at the present day, sell one another into slavery,
whenever they can find purchasers. Is -
1t does not necessarily follow, that the slave
and master, Traces mentioned in the Bible,) have
a common origin. Dr. c. asked the question il
they have, but did not answer it, leaving II open.
In the LIST chapter of Genesis from the 26th to
the 3Oth verse, inclusive, an account is given Of
the creation of man. In the I'd chapter, verses
7th and 9th, another account 10 given Of the crea-
ton of another race, after Ms seuen days sOere
ended This latter was the Adalnic or chosen
race The master or chosen race dweit apsrt
from the original or slave race, that was made
when the beasts and other things were made, m
the master and slave races at the present day in
the South, dwell apart--the master race IN the
great house, and the slave race in the quarters
and kitchen In former times, instead Of the
great house, the master race was put in delight
ful garden, called Eden; and was subjected,
then az now, to different rules from the slave
race The latter (see verse 20 h, chapter lst,)
was permitted to eat anything and everything
the former was restricted. (Seeverse Sd, chap
ter 3D. The consort or helpmate Of the Adamc
man was made from the man HIMSELF and called
woman. But the female sex of the original rnce
were made at the time the men were made. (See
chapter lst verse 27th.)
The master or Adamic race, to distinguish
them from the original or slave race, were also
called sons of God. See chapter 9th, verse Sd,
where mention is made that the master race or
sons of God intermarried with the original or
slave race Ham, Noah's son, following the
example of some other men of the Adamic,
race, chose wife, it is probable, from among
the original or slave race. We are not positively
told whether she had any children before 81 e
married Ham, but from the name given to ore
of her son's, Canaan, and the distinction that
Noah made subsequently between the children
of Hams wife, the plain inference il, that Ca
naan was born to her before her marriage with
Ham: or it would not have been right and
lust in Noah to have doomed one of her
children to slavery, and not the Others, il they
had all been Of the same blood. But If Canaan.
as his name imports, was genuine negro, and
had none of the Adamic blood in his veins, his
being doomed to slavery by Noah was no more
unjust than would be a decree against fish TO
live in water, because Dr. Cartwright has proved
by the peculiar anatomy and physiology Of the
negro race that slavery is as much the proper
element of the negro, as water is the proper
element for fish. The title Of the master race
of the South to their negro property is clearly
made out by the science of comparative Anato-
my and Physiology.
The East India company wants the matter
race Of the South to surrender their title to their
negro property, simply because it wants to trans.
fer the cultivation of the slave labor products Of
the South, to British Asia. With that view, II
has sowed the seed Of discord between the North
and the South, on the slavery question. II ia ia
vain 10 suppose that the company will let il drop,
while the prize it is contending for, the whole
agricultural wealth ofthe South--worth hundreds
Of millions Of dollars, promises any hope of at
tainment by turning the Indignation ofthe world
against negro slavery, through the instrumental.
ty of subsidized Northern and British pres.
II our Union ia to be preserved, will be b. the
Independent Southern press, coming to- the res
cue and dffus light and knowledge on the
slavery question, not as party question, but ~
a philosophical one. THAI.ES
NEW ORLEANS, July IL, 1851. ~