Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-07

ference of notes III distinct species has direct
parallel in human speech, and Is no greater thar
the difference of languages Which OF these
learned from the other, as the eagle from the thrush
or the lion from the cat?
a We must either give up identity of origin, OF
admit such plain contradictions. As examples Of
cognate languages, which have been supposed to
have sprung from common source, and dlnuseo
and changed by tradition transmission, we are
referred to the Sanscrit, the Persian the German
the Italian, the Greek and the Latin, and others,
as constituting one family. But these as tar back
as their history or tradition reaches were distinct
languages. Many spoken simultaneously.
The Oldest Chinese monuments exhibit the same
= Chinese language which is spoken to-day-so OF
the ancient Egyptian, the Hebrew, the old Greek,
which presents the same characteristics as modern
IGreek-they were always within the reach of ira
dition separate and distinct These cases are very
similar to sets of notes characteristic of different
families Of animals
How then arose languages so intimately allied
as for instance the Spanish and Italian? They ev-
identity grew from an admixture-a foreign infu-
sion superadded to the original stock. Modern
mixed nationalities, are evident examples of the
process.
The farther back Archaeology takes us, the more
distinct do We find the races. This branch of the
subject is so familiar to this community, and has
been discussed so ably here, that need only refer
to the fact, that far back monuments furnish
us evidence, far beyond history, we find the same
distinct types
My own views on this subject differ widely from
those of Others who have before maintained an
original diversity OF races. In my opinion not
only did different races, types Of mankind, as
the five races, so called have distinct origin-but
each distinct nationality which has played an i'm
portant part in history, had separate origin-men
were created in nations.
We may trace in detail how far diversity is
manifest in even less prominent shades. We will
instance Spain on account of it's isolation AZ Greek
writer 700 years before Christ, spoke of the fine,
soft WOOL brought from Spain by the Phencians.
So the horses of Spain mentioned as different
from any known to the writer doubtless the orig
ina stock of the Andalusan horses as the sheep
mentioned, of the modern merino sheep. These
were their only domestcated animals. They had
no cattle till long after. There is no lDention of
wild bulls here. In Italy there was peculiar spe-
cies of the bull-the Bison-at very early period.
This is not however, the original of cattle. 1t
was found in Southern Italy and no where else.
The wild bull, from which sprung our stock, was
peculiar to Central Europe-and was wild i'll the
forests of Germany till the 18th century. The
Romans used to send out bodies Of men to hunt
these animals in the Alps of Switzerland. This
goat of Egypt and Palestine is unlike our own
marked by peculiar horns. 1t is found on monu-
the goat of Mt. Sinai India has peculiar spe-
cies of cattle different from ours-and in some re-
spects superior.
If there was such a community of origin among
men, why had each region peculiar animals-why
did they not transmit the same domestic animals
which they had already subdued? On the contra
ry these animals distinct as the races among
whom they were found
In early times there was little intercourse be-
character, or sharing Of domestic concerns Their
means of ntercommunication were next to none.
Nations made up ofmingled elements a peculiar
modern history. Our own country is the most re-
markable example of this fact.
So in civilization, national prejudices were fos-
tered by natural repulsion, and hence the primi-
tive character of a people was long preserved.
If then we compare the physical facts in respect
to the different races-giving each its proper val
ue-if consider that in the earliest times, diff
ferent languages were in simultaneous use-as I'M
like as the notes of different species of animals if
we regard the subject of hybridity in all its bear
ings, allowing the dissmarty of species in animals
in different localities its proper Wei ght shall be
drawn inevitably towards the conclusion of diver
sty of origin and separate centres of creation.
All the defenders of original unity, lay great
stress upon external causes of change i'll man.
Now no fact is more clear, than the races settled
in different parts of the earth for centuries, show
no modification of type. Physical causes, such as
climate, locality, food, mode of life, should affect
all living things well men. Their effect
should be much greater upon animals, whose Or
ganzation is not stamped with the same perfection
as mans. Admitting this, there would be no limit
to the creative power of these agencies a confused
mass of organs might became an anima-given
matter, and these influences and organized existence
would result. This is playing directly into the
hlnds Of those who ascribe all things to progress
sive development, from lower forms to higher D-
versity has marks and evidence of plan and grada-
ton among among animals. We find an
original physical type Distinguishing the races, at
the same time showing community from the !,
lowest to the highest.
There is no such resemblance between the ape
and man. Animalty and humanity are entirely |
lance between the colored races and these animals, !
they never could have risen from apes. But we |
see in the graduation parallel to the grada- !
tons of animals up to man. Yet the coored races
though separated from animals entirely, in many |
traits resemble them more than they do the high
est types of men. The inferior races, by successive
gradatons, are linked to higher humanity. How |
could climatic influences produce these results
How could all physical causes mbned 1t would |
be to make an accident produce logical result i'll
short an absurdity.
In the whole world of life, we find this graduation.
It is not alone in the animal kingdom as it now
exists, but in the antecedent ages. as far back as
the oldest fossils, we see the same distinct order !