The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-06-20
+ onv human e4ste devoid Of evil No.

Is any human state devoid of evil . Not
,ne. The marriage relation-the parental
he civil, sc, are all al, attended with evil.
Why is there no STATE Of man devoid of evil?
The answer is plain and obvious. Because
these relations here On earth are less than
perfect.
When say, therefore, that slavery is an
evil social state, only substantially affirm |
that the state of Heaven is the only perfect |
state of man. Logic forces the conclusion.
Just precisely as any state is less than the
perfect just to that extent is it cursed
Hence there is curse now ~ all the social
states. But are they therefore wrong? No,
no. They are under our present circumstan-
ees, the highest wisdom. No now re-
gard the curse of seryitude is for the At
rican now, the highest wisdqSsand the truest
benevolence.
l have recently read work written by G.
B. Thompson, entitled, .'Tbe Nachash origin
Of the Black and Mixed races" He contends
that the negro was created slave, and was,
as such, in the garden of Eden, when God
created Adam. This not only cuts him off
from the provisions Of the gospel but upturns
the foundation on which the argument for
the divine legationship of Moses reposes. In
my view Of it, whether he intended it or not,
the position is at war with revelation.
The Bible unequivocal.y states who were
saved in the Ark. They rwere Noah and
his wife and his three sons and their wives.
1t is useless, however, to argue against such a
monstrous fallacy.
Now, If slavery arose in the family of Noah,
then, certain logclI results follow that are I'M
deniably true. /. That aifmen were crea-
ted equal. 2 That slavery is opposed to the
original equality &man. 3. That the negro
/ was created white. & That all Social states
of inequality result from will of God that BE-
gan to operate post@for to the natural or orfigii-
nal c7teim.
The language of Moses is, "In the selfsame
day entered Noah and Shem and Ham anG
Japhet, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife
and the three wives of his sons-and every liv
ing substance was destroyed both man ant
cattle; and Noah remained alive and theytha
acre nth him in the erl.'
Now one thing is very certain, if this re
cord be truthful, all suggestions of the crea
ton Of distinct races before the food and thei
OUTLYING the food is at variance with this re
cortland il the one be true the other can
not. The fact indeed appears to be obyiou
that any other hypothesis than the one here
in taken UNDERTAKINGS the authenticity
Revelation.
And it is also equally trie If the Scriptur
of Christ be invalidated that then the argr
ment being obliged to proceed on the groun
of natural right is against the bondage of Il
{ African race and in favor of the philosophy
the Chicago platform. But if ON the otht
hand Christ be a divine Hangover then tn
platform is intdel in its taachings since
urges against a now supposed Social state
respect to African slavery having divine sah
ton the faet-the admitted fact that the Aft
9 can was created free from that stute-th1
!. plainly making the original state of man
chat state-that prevailed before the fall Of ma
the right state for our present circumstance
:. This completely the divine authc
ity of Christ as the iaw-giver of the post
luyian times. The Hon. Jefferson Davis
his speech of May the 9Th last, says 'th
&c there was equality between the sexes VIII
!, man lived in the garden" in this ful
concur with him. Is it likely that any of t
- upholders of the Chicago platform "
agree in this? We presume not one. {
logical grounds they dare not make this {
: mission.
But let us argue on the supposition that
~ fore the supposed Ell of man, equality of
: ciaEeondition characterized the marriage re
: ton. Does Christ-the Christ of the Ser
Is tures-sanction this original or natural equ
y ity? Nothing is palmer than that he d.
not lie makes the parties unequal in co
a manding one of them to submit to the AUTH
~ tn Of the other. What now is the only 10
cal eanclnsishs Is It not That CHRIST rag 7;
N islated IN opposition 10 original equality
Al repugnance to nasural right?
: If he had respected the aetnrui rights
!, woman, as the Chicago platform does those
= the African, heheSer would so NANTES
- have violated them to woman's prejudice
The woman, if disposed, is at infidel lib
:. ty to avail herself of the philosophy of |
Chicago doctors of divine law, deny this Gu
of subjection-revile the character of Chr
y as disturber of the rights of nature or orr
: nal equality, and in spite of the despotism
:" his legislation, refuse the servitude, beco
'e free, as the God of creation originally ma
her, and cry out in the frantic language of I
higher philosophy, 'give US non-submiss
So Christ and non submission Bible.2
IN W. S. GRAYSON.
Sc Benton, Mss, June Z, 1860.