Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-15
From DeBow's Review.
CONCLUDED.

lNONOLODED.
Very few people in the Southern
States at the present day, know that
the tribes of negroes which make the
best slaves were, before they became
the slaves of the white man, tie sLares
of a serpent ; charmed and electrified by
the serpent-the worshippcrs of the
serpent. But CharlevOiX knew it and
Moreau de Saint Merry (see his "Descrip-
ton Isle Saint Dominique" vol. l., page
3O-Philadelphia, I797) knew it, and
recorded the fact as above stated; and
As to 80 pages of the same work will
be found to contain a description Of tine
snake-worship, and the wonderful charm
the serpent exercises we them.
Nearly all the ancestors of the ne
groes now in the United States, were
the sLares of the serpent before they be-
came the slaves of Christian white men.
They worshipped their snake-master,
believed that the serpent-god was all
wise, all-powerful, and rery wicbed. At
the present day, there are half a million
Of sidres of the serpent in Hayti. As soon
as the philanthropic British, to get the
indigo culture Of Hayti transferred 10
British India, cOntrivcd to rob the ne
groes Of their white masters, they re-
turned to the worship of the serpent.
Soulouque, although called emperor,
was the AFFECT slave of the serpent, and
so was his wife and all his subjects
The serpent, in every neighborhood.
governs them more absolutely and "
rannically than any white man ever go
verned them. The serpent is kept in q
box, carefully guarded by the coniurers.
They are thrown into an ecStatic state
by touching the box or coming near the
serpent, and in that state Of ecstacy or
temporary alienation of mind, they
make known the orders Of the snake
divinity. From l8t3 TO ls49, the or.
ders were to kill the mulattoes and take
their property from them. Aftcrward.
the orders were to regard all the ne.
groes who could read or write, or wore
good clothing, as mulattoes, and 70 be
treated as mulattOes. For proof of
these facts, see a work written by Gus
tan d'Alaux, entitled "LEmpereur Sou
louque," Paris, 1856. The little book,
shut up in the name of the creature
which beguiled Eve, contains an cpl
tome of the principal Distinguishing
characteristics Of the negro race, recor-
ded by Charlevoix, in 1871, MORGAN de
Saint Merry, in 1897, and GUSTAV dat
aux, in 1856, and gives clearer concep-
tons of the negro character than our
. most experienced planters and overseers
have got. We learn from it, that Adam
selected his slaves from that portion Of
the napheSh ehaiyah, or inferior races,
who had the hardest masters in the
world-the serpents. The people of the
United States followed Adams example
without knowing il, and got their slaves
from the serpent-worshippers. The Sc
v~enty-two who translated the bible into
Greek, rendered the word Nachash by
Ophiz, a serpent. There were so MANY
meanings TO the word, they were puz.
zled to tell which to choose. DR.. Clarke
thought that orang-outang would have
been a better choice than serpent, for
the name of q black creature, formed
like a man, with the gift of speech and
reason, a great deal of cunning, yet
playful and good-natured, walking erect,
u sorcerer, and a slave to something
that charmed it. If the seventy-two
had lived in our day, they would have
rendered the word Nachash, as the great
Hebrew scholar of the East, but now
of the West, c. Blanchard Tompson,
has rendered il, by the word negro. We
have in the Northwest a tribe of In
dians called Snakes. The name was in
tended to be significant of some peculi-
ar trait in their character.
After Cain killed his brother, he went
into the land of Nod, inhabited by some
one or more Of the inferior races. and
took a wife. In process of time, a very
general amalgamation of races occur
red between the Adamic and the inferi-
or. That they were black is inferred
from the mark they put upon Cain. The
.hybrids were S % exceedingly wicked
that the Lord determined to destroy them
by a food. For fifteen hundred years,
the Adamic ace had appropriated the
term man and mankind exclusively to it
self. During these fifteen hundred years
whenever we see the term man in our
English translation, we will find Adam
in Hebrew. Mr.. Jefferson used the term
MEN, in the Declaration of Independence,
in its original Hebrew sense. There is
no word, as a generic term, meaning
nan, in the Choctaw language. A Choc.
law is a nockane, a white man a na-hoo.
loo The abolition delusion is founded