Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-02

ts,- vsIsno Z anIensoi pfoposItiou.tuat siave-
Try is local and freedom, natural and universal
is but miserable begging of the question
But even if the proposition were true in theo-
ry, it is untrue in practice, and has always
been. The contrary has been received and
acted upon as true, without single exeep-
ton for 1000 years; aud 1t is too late now.
in the old age of the world, TO reorganize
mankind. Hametic slavery has existed in
every age since the food, more especially in
Christian countries, and it has never been
directly abolished in country protesting
Christianity, save where the population was
fast tending to Infdelity, individual and ma
tional, as in New England-or from mistaken
political considerations, as in Great Britain.
Throughout the United States, save within
the last two or three decades. African slavery
has always been regarded, in accordance with
the received opinion of mankind, as general;
requiring local laws, not to establish, but to
prevent it. Look at the original constitutions
every instance where slavery exists, it is never
directly established but is nicely regulated;
as a relation as naturally existent as the rela-
tion of parent and child, or husband and wife,
neither of which require direct laws to esta-
blish them-but where it does not exist, it is
not
The fact then, is certain, that our fore
fathers, wise men as they were. did not view
slavery as the creation of local municipal
law. This whole question has now been au-
thoritatively passed upon by the highest
tribunal known to our Federal Union. After
a calm and patient investigation of the sub
ject, and review of Mansfeld's decision. the
Supreme Court of the United States in the
case of bred Scott, have deliberately and dis
tinctly decided that the negro is, by nature
and by Divine law, of distinct, inferior and
servile species of the human race, and there
fore he can have no 'rights" of citizenship
and that no territorial law, or law of Con-
gress, can divest the master of his property,
in the person and services of his slave. 1t is,
therefore, now, by judicial decision, the posi-.
tive law of the land, that the eatural and
normal relation of the negro to the white
race, is that of inferiority and servitude, just
as God declared it should be, about 1000 years
ago. This ordinance of God-the blessings
of Shem and Japhet, the unqualified curse of
Ham, and continual separation of the three
is not, like the latter day theory of natural
and universal equality, a new thing, trumped
up by cbarlatans to answer the exigencies of
the reckless moral and social progress (?) of
the 10Th century, but has existed the great
aud unanswerable defence of Hametic slavery
for thousands of years. Cursed be Canaan
a servant of servants shall he be unto his
brethren. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem;
and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the
tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his SER
want" This is prophecy; and prophecy
involving the whole history of the human
race, from Noah to the Judgment day. There
are no qualifications: the curse of the race of
Ham is exactly equal with the blessings of
Shem and the enlargement of Japheth, and
they are to continue to the end of time. No
profound knowledge of human history is
needed to see the literal and continued fulfill
ment of this prophecy. Shem has received
his blessing, and to some extent has forfeited
it; Japheth has been enlarged has received
dominion of two continents-and the highest
social, moral and mental development-and
England and Russia are dwellingin the tents
of Shem-in all ages since the food, the
race of Ham have been accursed, and have
been, as their natural and normal condition,
slaves for their brethren-and in all ages the
three races have been marked and separate
the line of separation, instead of diminishing,
as other lines do, becoming greater and more
distinct with the progress of time. Philoso-
pliers generally classify the human race into
five varieties, viz: the Caucasian. Mongolian,
American, Ethiopian and Malay; or by col
ors: the white, brown, copper, black and
tawny-but these are really and properly re-
ducible to three, viz: the European or eau
casian, the African, and the Asiatic or Mon
golian. Between these three varieties or
species, there have always been insuperable
barriers-ineradcable, organic and dlstinc-
tive differences-existent, not from "climate,
food, &C." but from the direct sentence of
God Even before the food, there must
have existed marked distinction between
the descendants of Cain and those of Seth;
and this distinction must have sprung, also,
from the direct sentence of God, in the pecu-
liar curse pronounced on Cain and his seed.
After the flood, the Creator directly institu-
ted new ordinances for the government of the
race, as, for example, the reduction of the
life of man to less than one-fifth what it had
been. The greatest of all the new ordinances
was the appointment of Shem, Ham, and
Japheth to he the fathers and founders of
three widely distinct and dissimilar species,
which distinction and dissimilarity were to
continue through all time. This second start
ing point was, therefore, not a unit like the
original. but was triune-and the destinies of
these three were TO be different, as foreshad-
owed in the blessings and curses pronounced
upon each. The original unity of the human
race cannot be doubted, because il is estab-
lished by clear Biblical authority-but human
reason can establish it in no other way than
this that God at the second starting of the
race, ordained the division of mankind into
the three distinct and organically different
species which we find existent at the present
day.
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