New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-15

| Ire Rabbi tells us sundry things shout Sbem an
Jarbeth, destined to strengthen the belief Of hi
herers In prophecy which may BE- allowed /
pass by without scrutiny observing BY the bv. the
the only interesting part, that concerning tie Arabs
taken from the Hebew writings of the Las, Italia,
scholar Regeo), our principal object here being IN,
third con Of Noah the Cursed one the darling Of Pro
Slavery thsticgisns, Ham, the negro 10 the Bible
"There are three predictions says our Rabbi "wset
seem intended for all times, and accordingly rena;z
in force to this present Jay. The first of these lie tie
doom Of Hams defendants, the African race, pro
"nounced upward Of fourthousnd years ago." A few
words, bat full Of fsebood, nonsenee and blaspbemy
The doom Of The descendants of Ham, Of the Hamites
in the predictions Where Hams fourth son, ca
naan, alone Il mentioned. Where is tho sIghteet su-
tborty for the doom of his other sons OF bis race
Noah awakening from bis drunkenness, curses in pun
i.Lment of IN insult Of the offender, and race
Is 70 be doomed for all times" Doomed by whom
'spIeacber in Israeli" BY the God whom you teach
our people to worship, the God Of Mercy, whom our
awgver rIoclairns to extend his rewards to the thou
sandth generation and bis punishment Of crimes only
TO The fourth Doomed to be punished for the crime
Of their anteduvian pregenitor for all times by the
rod Of man. whom our law The law Of Moses prohibits
from nlictDg any punishment on son for the crime
even Of father? And all this uttered bya Jew whose
very race was but Of hate generally believed to be
cured forever for ancient orime And what in
spires your blasphemous assertions? Teacher N Israel
is It the trivial vulgar notion of your Pro-Savery
patrons the text the Scriptures Open your book
Where is there a word confirming your absurdities
Noah cured but did Ciod History shows it, You say.
Compare Ham, the African race and our negro What
q strange mixture Where Is the IDENTIFY South
Carolina and Dahomey, Alabama and TimbuctooSbave
more features of resemblance than the biblical iamtes
and your negroes.
Ham, the "mesnest Of slaves" in biblical history
No. preacher in isrel the contrary, the CONFUSING
race par ercelcuce! Whom do you find among tue
descendants Of Ham in Genesis (x.I! There is Cush,
OF the Philippians with their Meroe which by many dis
tingushed scholars is slill believed to have been
lie cradle Of all civilization this side of India There
ir Mirain, or the Egyptians 1.-THE Ham proper OF the
ScrptuIes Of whose wisdom and power the Scriptures
are full the teachers of Chadea and Greece, the builders
Of the most supendous works Of antiquity, the ensaves
of our Semitic ancestors the conquerors at many times
of Western Asia the eircumnaygators Of Africa. There
IS Himrod, the founder Of Babylon, the learned and
proAigse mistress OF the Asan world, whose iron rod,
70 long endured by Semitic ancestors, appears
broken only tbs Last pages Of our ScrPural history
There il Ashur, tie Ar! .ss Of Nineyeh, the pow
erfu rival Of tho city the nuPhraes whose conquer
ing sword scattered over thu world and nationally
destroyed ten Of the twelve y bee Of Semitic Israel
There il Shebs or the Sbsan the masters of the gold
and spice region Of Aratia Felix, whose queen came
10 Jerusalem TO vie in wso IL with our King Sol
omon There IL Caphtor, supposed by the best critics
to mean the Cretans whose Minos was us renowned
for power as for wisdom and justice the constructors
Of the Cnosian labyrinth the masters Of tho Grecian
seas to whom the city Of Minerva was tributary.
There are the Phlstines, who long disputed with
our Semitic ancestors the possession Of the land which
the Greeks finally named after them. There If Sidon,
and other Pbnncian tribes whose glorious cities and
unriyaled commerce, over and land, with all the
nations OF the ancient globe, described in such
glowing words by prophet Ezekiel There are
Desan and Rama, Seba, and Havilah tribes, Ike
Sheba settled on the shores of the Arabian eeas aud
rich by their traffic In gold, spices and other precious
things with the equally Hsmidc Tyre Ezekiel xviii.
There are the Ludi and other Libyans, masters of the
nUribor,, margins 81 Africa but of Caucasian race.
There are some few others, Of whom we must say
with JoSepbus ANT. Book / Chap. g.: eve know
nothing of them beside their Names and among
whom allow you, learned Rabbi, to look for your
'meanest Of slaves" confirmed in biblical history!
King Solomon married Hamite women Egyptian, 81
DOMAIN Bel Other kings Of Israel did the same. But
they were wicked, you say. Our lawgiyer, Moses
himself, married a Hamite (Cushte) woman Mum.
xiii and hs brother and sister, who gainsayed it, were
reprimanded for 80 doing The cursed son OF Ham,
Canaan had nothing do with the African race. The
chronological chapter Of Genesis x fixes the boundaries
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beyond the limits Of Syria, and even hardly beyond
those Of Palestine.
Tie same historical accuracy is eyinced by our Rabbi
in regard to later periods. In sweeping passage
he makes Abraham Isaac, Jacob, job" the men
" with whom the Almighty communed, with whose
" names he emphatically connects his most holy name
all shareholders! Teacher in Israel, speaking thus
before the descendants Of those men, in temple ded
Gated to that God, day Of prayer and humiliation
destined to avert the horrors of civil from this
onre glorious Republic but now threatened to become
reputed like the United States of Sodom and Gomorrah,
Adrcah and Zebom, under tho dictates of slave
breeding savetrsding slsve-hunting faction" does
it not strike you that you are guilty Of something
" very little short Of blasphemy'' And OF what ab-
surdity Peaceabe, unwarlike, nomadic patriarchs,
" migrating from people to people and from land to
land" with their wives, children, and hocks, and
few attendants, mostly through halfsottled regions,
and beyond the borders Of other societies. in order to
escape the contagion Of heather inquties continually
surrounded by dangers and enemies unable TO defend
the honor here Of wife, there Of child robbed here
of we'll and there concluding treaty under oath
about anothersre Represented to have been slave
holders! How did they guard their slaves, wise
Rabbi on their grazing places between Haran and the
River Of Egypt in the valley of the lower or upper