Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-08

sion, equivalent TO "ls it possible
Can it be that Elohim has said you are
not to eat of every tree in the garden
Ye shall not die, but in the day you eat
thereof you will be as gods, knowing
good and evil.
We are told, in the 10th verse OF the
second chapter, that all the creatures
were brought before Adam &c receive
names, and that what he called every
living creature that was the name
thereof. What these names were, ar-
pears afterward. The he gave
very often contained an abridged his
tory of the thing itself shu. up IN the
namc-a sealed book to those who did
know the thing, and intended so to I've,
until, perhaps, thousands Of years cX-
p%cricnce had enabled man IL acquire tie
key of knowledge to unlock and read
the book. The first one Of these names,
enclosing within the name a history Of
the thing named, occurs in the lst verse
of the Sd chapter Of Genesis. 1t -
Nachah. That is the name of the crea-
ture which beguiled Eve. The history
of the creature is enclosed in the name
under cover Of a bundle of ideas, 50 III
congruous and disconnected as not 10
be understood until, in the revolutions
Of ages, sufficient knowledge of the
thing named had been acquired by ex-
perience to furnish the key to unlock
the book. We see around it the ser
pent-the charmed-the enchanted
watching closely-prying into designs
-muttering and babbling without
ning-hissing-whistling -deceitful-
artful letters - chains-and a verb
formed from the name, which signifies
t. be or t. become black. Any good
Ovcrseer would recognize the negro's
peculiarities in the definition OF Nae
hash, and the verbs connected with 1t,
if read from a Hebrew lexicon.
But you may ask, is not the first part
Of Genesis a narration of events that
could not possibly have been witnessed
by any human being, and of what value
can it be in the search Of Truth 1t
would be of no more value than Sinbad
the Sailor, if the narration did not
prove itself by containing within itself
the truth sought for. We are in search
of the truth about negroes, whether
they belong to the Adamic race or not.
The Bible tells certain facts about
negroes, which none but the best III
formed planters and oversers know
at the present day. The most learned
divines are ignorant Of them, not be-
cause they cannot read Hebrew, but
because they cannot read Hebrew re-
writ in the negro. Planters and Eel
seers read it in the negroes, but don't
know that it is Hebrew, and that their
evidence, if they could read Hebrew,
would prove, in any court of justice, to
the satisfaction of any jury, that the
writer of Genesis knew more about ne
groes than they did. A star in the
East has lately appeared, throwing
much light on the first chapter OF Gene
sis, by making plain to all observers a
lot of inferior races, pure ferrigenQ, In
Guiding giants, created before Adam.
C. Blanchard Thompson, Of New Eng -
land, a Hebrew scholar of the ~first-class,
after im~migrating to Missouri, made
the discovery, that if the Gath verse
of the LIST chapter were literally and
fully translated, it would save the
necessity of torturing Scripture and
scientific truth to procure a white father
and mother for the Missouri negroes
and the Missouri Indians. But Thomp-
son, with all his learning, is far behind
the pensman of the book of Genesis in
his knowledge of that character. He
did not know that the most stupid negro
is no only more subtle than any beast
of the field, but has much more subtlety
in nan matters than the wisest white
men generally have. He will find some
overseers in Louisiana and Mississippi
who are aware of the fact. For in
stance, a negro can read an overseer
much better than his master can, and
can instinctively tell whether he is a
man of courage, or a be imposed on
not, or whether be IA see through a ne
gro as the negroes see through him.
The writer of Genesis knew IT, and ex-
pressed the fact in that bundle of iddas,
or epitomized history Of the negro char
acter, shut up in the name he gave to.
the creature, which Eve met with in the
garden of Paradise. The year before
Washington was born, Charlevoix re-
corded in French, from observation of
negro slaves in the West India Islands,
the same thing recorded in Hebrew
upward of five thousand six hundred
years previously, relative to the same
people. Charlevoix says (vol. IL, page
499, book the 18th, "Histoire de Plsle
Espagnole on de S. Dominique y Ills
sout tres habiles dams Part de dissumu-
L. x., L. aI,, ot,pida paore dams loo