The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-16
GEORGETOWN, DEL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER l6 1868
this name illustrious throughout Europe,
Asia and Africa"

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this name illustrious throughout Europe
Asia and Africa"
DIR. Adam Clark, in his comm. on Gen. x,
20" There are the sons Of Ham, after their
families, DE, "judiciously remarks, mo doubt
all these were well known in the time of Mo
ses, and for long time after; but at this
distance of time, when it is considered that
the political state of the world has been un-
dergoing almost incessant revolutions through
all the intermiate portions of time, the impos-
sibility of fixing their residence, marking
their descendants, must be evident, as both
the names of the people, and the places Of
their residences, have been changed beyond
the possibility of being recognized" But tho
habitations of the Cdnaanites are sufficiently
well established, to prove that they never peo-
pied the interior and tropical regions of A rica
and could not, by any possibility, have been
the ancestors of the negroes-or people-with
black skins, and woolly heads" That the
inhabitants of Arabia, Egypt, and other coun-
tries we have named have dark, olive COM
plexions, some approaching to black, is well
known and admitted.-They inhabit warm
latitudes; and are subject to hot winds; and
the scorching influences of vast sandy deserts;
but they have not "woolly heads" Thus in
" the song of Solomon which is supposed
by some to have been an Epithdlan,iunl--
"nuptial song" in compliment to his wife,
the daughter of Pharaoh, he makes his bride
to say" am black, but comely, p" Look
not upon me-" THAT is disparagingly) "be-
cause L am black because the sun hath
looked upon me-" Solomon calls her the
" "fairest among women" I, 5, 6, and again
" Behold thou art fair, my love =" thy hair
is as flock of goats, that appear from Mount
Gilead, F" ~, Though black and the sun
had looked upon" her, yet this wife of Solo
mon, had "hair" like flock of goats-she
had not "woolly head" Moses himself,
married one who was called an " Ethiopian,
woman THE daughter of Jethro, priest of
Midian-a country about the northeast point
of the Red Sea, in Arabia--a descendant of
Abraham, by Keturah.
l have been thus minute and probably te-
dious, that l might briefly prove, as well as
the ancient records will admit of proof, that
the Canaanites" did not people Africa-that
they were not negroes, having "black skins
and woolly heads that Cssh was the father
of the Ethiopians," and ofthe " Me0royaeep
that it has not "been the commonly re-
ceived opinion of all ages, that the negroes
are the descendants of Canaan" and that all
those who have black skins are not slaoes.
These important disooveries-to wit, that the
Canaanites are the ancestors of the negroes
the people with "black skins and woolly |
heads that those people with "black skins
and woolly heads ~" attestations of the |
curse pronounced upon Canaan and his de-
have been doomed to a slavery
which is to last 60 forever and ever "-and that
his has been the commonly received opin-
ion Of all ages have been reserved for the
powers of research, and discovery
If this very learned Elder of an Old School
Presbyterian Church, "-of this second
Daniel come to judgement who, unfortu-
nately for himself, and his Democratic breth-
ZEN, does not seem to know much about his
subject, and " what he does know isn't So"
July 2Sth, 1868. C. S. l..