The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-03
For the Nashville Trus Wig
Bible psfsnss Of Slavery.

my pefueai, q 8OTk under the ABOVE hsie concocscs
by Rev. Priest, and Published AZ Glasgow, Ken
lucky. Upon attempting to read it, found 1t to
4 be as my friend had represented, indeed wonder.
fol performance. As, however, the impression
which ID makes, and the pleasure derived from
contemplation of its singular properties are OF q
nature incompatible with permanence OF repetition,
my interest failed and closed the book at the seth
page. sancs that time have scarcely heard Of the
thing, and had supposed that Is was gone las Il is
most meet Il shouId) 'to the receptacle Of things
lost upon EARTH"
But il seems was mistaken. On yesterday
travelling agent called at my Office with the book
for sale 81 per copy which would be double price
for readable book. Upon my declining to pur-
chase, it was urged upon me as the duty Of every
Southern STAKEHOLDER to encourage the Defence
This argument prevailed with several Of my neigh
bors, and the nloney was pocketed. Now as q
mere booksellers trick this appeal TO sectional feel
ing, would concern me very little. If shareholders
can thus be induced to empty their pockets for the
sake Of filing their libraries with trash, it is just
what is being done every day, and is, perhaps, q
trivial mischief ss-so1 Is n
Bot is this all or the worst 20 be apprehendedf
Il the book is sold extensively In the South avow.
edly because it advocates the "peculiar institu-
tion," is there not manifest danger that abroad we
shall be regarded as endorsing its facts and argu-
DentsF that we shall be held responsible for the
ross ignorance and mentalimbecility which are the
characteristics of the work that in short it will be
regarded by foreigners (Aboliionists included) as
| al. ,ls: I'D ost ,la nd
slavery, with wee csnoffer to the worlds
For one desire hereby and herein to protest
against any such nferences; and to declare that,
in my opinion, the book not only fails TO accom-
plish the avowed object Of its author, but that
throughout it violates common sense, and common
experience ignores or perverts all history, and be-
trays an equal ignorance Of ancient languages and
of modern English. bare assertion, he general
ly styles demonstration and am persuaded that
to his mind % the proof given by Euclid, that the
three angles of triangle are together equal to two
right angles, and the old woman's think that the
moon is a large green cheese, are equally demon
strative and authoritative. His chief historical refer.
ence is Horoditus that is, SO far as / have read !;
probably in the sequel, he Jugs in CULVER, Joe
Smith and Armageddon.
| have jus. read few additional pages for the
entertainment of q visitor and from them select
some specimens of his pathological lore. Niger,
the name of an African river, he says Up. Az is
Hebrew, and hence arose from earliest time, the
word negro" applied to the black race. There is
no such Hebrew word as Niger and Negro is Span
ish aud its application to certain natives of central
i IL Il l.
by the Spaniards for the supply of their South
American colonies. On the same page he tells US
that Ehicpe is HebreD, signifying Hacknsss. Ethi-
ope, is not Hebrew, but Greek, and means burnt
faces, term employed by the Greeks to designate
the inhabitants OF arid deserts such as those around
the Red sea, and the present Barbary States.
From page 80, extract the following extraord
nary instance Of learning and acuteness, viz: at
is well known that every name of every being
thing or existence, has its specific meaning in the
Hebrew, and, in this respect it is different from oil
other languages of the globe. Let any one reflect
moment on this subject. and see if he can find
especially when examining the names of men in the
English, whether they have any specific meaning
beyond mere name" Yes, you presumtuous ig
norsmusl From the pure Hebrew which, upon
your authority alone, Adam spoke in Paradise
down to the jargon Of the Seminole Indisns--from
the Harmonious diction of Pericles TO your own
awkward imitation Of EngEsh-in all languages of
all people, whether written or merely oral names of
men have meaning in the language apart from
their use as names. Otherwise men would never
have obtained any Names at least in the ruder states
Of society and language. Most of our common
English names of men, can now be traced to their
signifeanr originals in the Anglo Saxon.
With the resources Of such linguistic erudition,
aided by an innocent assumption, and the over
throw of all ancient history that men now believe
| in, he drives triumphantly to his conciusion-not,
however, the legitimate one for that would be that
t is wrong to prohibit the African slave trade. The
assumption is that there born to Noah by one
| and the same woman three sons, one white, one
red, aud one black, (Negro.) The result is that
the descendants Of the black Ham, have actually
been always slaves, in execution of Gods curse
upon them, in defiance Of the plain Biblical history
which Informs that they were the MASTERS in
Egypt, of the chosen Tsraelites for four hundred
years And Hannibal, the great Napoleon of his
times--why Hannibal was q black, woolly- headed,
fstno>ed, thicked.lipped, cucumber-shined, long
heeled, thicked -skulled, small Drained Sambo ct
for nothing better than TO 'boe corn, dig potatoes
and to dance juba!" And then Dido-vrgirs
| sweet Eliza. Eneas, had the stoaeh OF dog, sure
And now, Mr. Editor, what win be the predica.
ment Of Southern shareholders before the world, If
they should even carelssly send forth such cham
pion Of their Cause as the Rev. Priest to fall into
the hands of Theodore Parker-aye, or even Fred
Dougasf There is war and dissolution Of the Union
in the very thought. Let club be formed incon.
tnently. to buy the copy right and stop the mis-
chief II FIRE will do its work.
The truth Is, that ell discussion Of the moral right
or wrong Of slavery, Is inappropriate 10 any prsct
cal issue now before the American people. The
slaves are here, and as jet no one has shown us
what better. than 10 retain them in their present
condition, can be done for the slaves themselves,
| aetting aside all II Al.