Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-08
Unity of the Human Race Dis
proved by the Bible.
BY DR.. SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT.
From DE BOWS Review.

Entomology is the classification of
races on the characteristic differences
which distinguish them. That science
proves that the negro differed as much
from the white man three thousand
years ago as he does now, and would
Of itself be sufficient to settle the ques-
ton, if 50 many people, including the
most Of the divincs in Europe and Ame-
RIGA, were not a~nxiously looking out
every day for the negro to become
white. The question is pressing home
upon us too heavily TO wait another
three thousand years to prove whether
the characteristic differences between
the two races he permanent or not, as
the time already past is not regarded
by Prichard and others as sufficient.
Let us, therefore, abandon the slow,
uncertain and tortuOus paths of proud
Science, and seek to know what God
has revealed on the subject. five take
the Hebrew Bible for a guide, and faith
fully interpret it, there can be but n
opinion on the question. That book
positively affirms that there were, at
least, two races Of intellectual crca-
lures with immortal souls, created at
different times. Thus, in the oath verse
of the lst chapter of Genesis. THE
Lord said, Let the earth bring forth IN
teilcctu0i creatures Uuh immortal souls after
their kind {; cattle, and creeping thing,
and beast of the earth after his kind,
and it was So" In our English version,
instead Of "iatcNectuai creatures riM i'm
mortal souls" we have only the words,
"Liring creature" as representing the
Hebrew words, naphesh ehaiyah. The
last word means Giving creature" and
the word Haphesh, which invests Aaiyah,
or living creature, with intellectually
and immortrlity, is not translated at all,
either in the Douay Bible or that of
King James. But there it stands more
durable than brass or granite, inviting
us to look at the negro and the Indian,
and then to look at that, and we will
understand it. Neither the Catholic nor
Protestant translstors of the Bible seem
to have had the negroes in their minds
eye when they were looking at the
words nophcsh ohaiyah, or if they had,
they took for granted that they were
white men whose skins a tropical sun
had BACKED, and hence omitted to trans
late the words which embraced them.
Mississippi and Louisiana are half full
of negroes, and so is the Hebrew Bible,
but our English version has not got a
negro in it.
The t~ranslators surely thought that
there must be some mistake in regard to
the iateAcctudLty and Immortality OF any
earthly beings, created before Adam,
and hence omitted to express the idea
of intellectually and Immortality, which
the original attached to such beings.
After the inferior races, or inferior nap
hest chaiyah were created, God SAID,
LET us make Adam Tor a superior race
Of naphesb daiyah) in our W image,
and after our likeness, and let them
have dominion over all things on EARTH"
including the negroes of course. Chap
ter ,, verse I, says that Adam became
a bring soui." became a ndphesh chd,yah.
We understand by hring soul a creature
with intelligence and immortal mind.
If the same words had been translated
the same way in the oath verse of the
LIST chapter, we would have recognized
two creations of intellectual and i'm
mortal beings at different times. But
these words being merely rendered
hiring creature, in the Oath verse, con-
founded the inferior naphesh ohdiyah
with the brutes mentioned in the same
verse.
Fifty years ago DIR. Adam Clarke, the
learned commentator of the Bible, from
deep reading in the Hebrew, Arabic
and Coptic languages, was forced to
the conclusion that the creature which
beguiled Eve was an animal formed
like man, walked erect, and had the
gift of speech and reason. He believ-
ed it was an orang-outang and not a
serpent. If be mad lived in Louisiana,
instead of England, he would have re-
cognized the negro gardener. Eve was a
new conner, and had evidently been
questioning, out of curiosity, the gar
dener about the tree with the forbidden
fruit. The ophidian Bimana begins bis
-arlx, n hor nrocxiono uy,fh nv nvcla~a