Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-26


endeavorng account for the pcu artss which CHAR
acter1, the negro you pray us to supp that is beg
gng the ques ion sir, and despise supposions that
the Of m either IN zram Phutt, both OF whom
ss,ii.l IN Africa, as prcvdentiay of a dark con-
pl xor ard that hI wife partook OF the same, ard thus
q taHnv color became ffed the family. Lot Us then
suppose that verbal igi' fI,us again. sir that some
OF his children migrated the interior o! Africa, a. il
deed il sid Phutt himself did, and exposed to
the burning he and arid sands of that regiou ard
peciay BE- ald by bilious diseases which so serious
y effect the color Of the kn, who shall say bu. that in
few centcr.es fIed charge in compl Iion, and in
Other features Of the race, nigh: take lace" 10
the rst inst CO, fi this agument-ii may so csli'-
is built on a sandb.Lk have shown, it was nst Ham
who cursed, but Canaan. In the second-negroes
have been in Virginia. smos. since the first settlement
of the little colony at jamestown, yet tell me, during
centuries which have since elapsed, when and where,
free from the sin Of amllgamaiion, even a Tny" CHI
den born of African parents? o. the oher hand
Caucas' ans have been in India and Africa, beIeatl,
'burnirg suns and upon arid sands" from very remot
tne but, ling to your mentor, Dr. Prchard, no
negro child ever descended from any such uucorrup.e
ancestry. So mu,h, cir, for your sUPPosrIoSs; and
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stating that both Mzram and Phutt "Gettled in Africa
or that the latter migrated to the interior" Of thu
country That notion is, at the very bes:, phiai
thsopc fatla. The best THEOLOGICAL ethnographist
even agreed upon the fact that to the descendants o.
CusH were ao tel the hot Southern regions Of All
along the shore OF the Persian Gull-ssy, su.'ana o.
CusHIrAx to the sons Of CANAAN, Palestine and syr;
TO the of MIzRArM, Egypt, Lydia, &c. Where,
in oil these regons--( although DO not agree with To
description do you fad the wooy led and iypica
negro?
Bu, this is not al lot examine the put upon tn
son Of Ham, By Noah.-"And he siid, Cursed BE- Osnsai
= servant OF servants shall he be unto his brethren
Shem aui j ,phet. Nov, let call up Bishop hele'
AZ a witness against himself /" We teeve" says he,
"tha /! en- estimate coud be made, that not one te"
OF the human who have been made slaves was m n
Africa" To your estimate, cir, will add nine tmes
.eu and assert ths. not one hudsdh par. oi the hr-
man raco who have been made slaves" nceroes.-
But thon il A'rclus constitute the H.miG. OF the FL.
ale, Ecs.s Wa, by 10 means the prophet give him
credit for; suce the great preporderancs OF the scr
wants Of ,lives" have been Shernes and Japhetites
tie servants OF each other In fact, the saGmitts
Euglaud gave up ihc tens" Of their kinsfok to th
54naahes OF Jamaica, Antigua and Guiinf while d ,
brethren Of tie latter, in Hayti, htvo kicked cut c
tleir dwellings, the Gallo ChldIen Of those whom th'
Lcrd God blessed. "
The truth IT, although, Ike msuy Others, you hsy,
| failed 10 perceive il, that N wrote aud s, oke
no, &C much Of universal mankind ne did Of tie pso
pl, of Gol's prediec ioa-:he AbraniGe You do MOI
understand Moses be wrote but ycu interpret lin
you wish h, had written. You have quoted n. "Ih
ter nz gsi erAllies" OF the Bible, Ddnsver they suited
yJu- Do, ma. sg and swallowed them without note, com
mnt or explanation, as Liiors pael;s DO their atel
pills but VII venture to assert that if T. 81
you what the text" And ii rpeateh the Lord that BE
had rna is m.n IN AIT, yol would reply, that Co
was frsycd upol bcLoldrg the piqny OF our fpeoes
Way thn baid moan .ain Of error, in order to col
ccal The ,rrt upon the single assertion the whole
Earl. was OF ous lip, AID of ono w)ri'" CoLsid
cred literally, sir. could there be anything more absurd
.hsu tl Tbs Earth 'as no Up and no T5rd To ;h, yoa
y!l i, rbloss, rep; "Goscs meant mark.n1 conced.
s N5r navel as rlel, can conceive that God ev
or m ,da toe IlimJ dial ;ypes Of our order, with the b
Of bids or the oils Of 6shes. And in similar gen
al serss !; was that Plg Epko upon Mara Hill, whe,
nc ted that call nations Of men were Of OIL,
po.d-tiGt s all OF 81 cciIs were Gods ctildrer
had spiritual atfay, and .ansomcd by the aon
NJ sacrifice of Christ; out not that the several types
Nth the v,rsy 0: which he had bu ln.toi cqua;u
anoe, were the Oh llrea Of a single pals Indeed, no i
30 cue u in tho context TO Indicate bis leaning t
nv doctrine sace for tn. varoGs species Of the genus
Man, he says-Goi "hath termiued the times b.for
appgintsd AID tho bounds OF Their babtation; whic
Ger ainiy r.sembles ia brief, tie group" theory {
CAUSE AND CONTRAST.
Ba,, sir Il this be irsufic!en must have recourse Il
your cho en- u.hcriti,s-Bunssn and PGoia;d. hay
been a careful student ard admirer Of the former
and, although un,ble TO always agree with him. rC
we're his dus;. Upon the Chronology OF the bic, Low
,ver, sir, those Who receive i; greatly disagree th
Sep;uaeint ads hundred years to each OF the P'
trarchs-Adam, Seth, Elos, C,ara1, hitaale Il, Gt
Epcch before the birth OF h,ir sons Wills they Il
twenty from the az, Of Methusal aud add SIX to h'
of L,mech thus rendering the from the Creation
the Dsluge 2242 years. But here the Ae1andrin
iron ogy difsrs from that Of tho Vatican, and max
il 262; while Josephus has it 2265; the Samarita
1907; ; and the Hebrew text $50. The accepted o.
thodjr Chronology, from the Creation to the birth
Chris Is OO4 yens yet Bun rejects all this as Il
mere result of pouI stupidity, ignoranes or fraud, al
follows Lcpsius, who maintains that henes, the hr
King of the first E. yptisn Pyramda Dynasty, regns
s97 years B. c. He also maintains that, previous
this, (ses EyypfJ Place in Universal Hi'tory) tht'
{ was a civil zltion OF from fifteen to thirty thousir
years old in the Nile Valley 81 much cir Tor yoI
ars. "scripturap authority. think thai my orthodox
i., at least, equal to his
, And now, sir as to your second Dr. James COwl'
Pr;eh,rd. He was grea. man-in srHdition; but /
never orisu,tei or discovered new idea. A' b
lves upon aoEers, he fitened upon the researches
o,ber and greater man and as these changed thu
ooipons, or aided to their knosedge and Tesearehe
H., convicops underwent alteration. The 81 editio
i, ,f"A Physical History of Mankind appeared in iS
.be mex. in 1926, aud the list, believe ia lsi'-a'