The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-06

and sometimes, indeed, small bones are mis-
sing
There are, undoubtly, many varieties of the
human family, occasioned, as is admitted by
the ablest writers on the subject, by extran-
eous scircumstances-as I" the influence of tenn
perature, and climate, and of food, and the
effect of difference in manners and customs"
The existence of these cdrieties has induced
some, who are wiser than Noses" and dis
satisfied with his history of the human family,
to urge that there are different races or spe.
cies of men that these differences prove diff
ferent creations of men and that the present
varied inhabitants of the world have not all
descended from Adam and from Noah. But
DIR. Dunglinson Human Physiology, vol.
p. 5S5) remarks, Whatever changes have
been impressed upon mankind can, of course,
apply only to the descendants of Noah. The
broad distinctions we now meet with could
not have existed in his immediate family,
saved with him at the time of the deluge.
They must necessarily, have all been of the
same race"
will pursue this subject--of the varieties,
and difference of color of these carieties of
men-further in subsequent number, and
will conclude this letter by reciting the opinion
of DIR. Rush (of worldwide fame as q physi-
clan, surgeon and philosopher, and of equal
authority, at least, to any surgical author
quoted by the Elder y on the subject of the
difference in color and figure of the negroes
from the white man. quote from 2v. Dung
lingson's Physiology, Up. 603,); The fol-
lowing are his (Dr. Rush's) deductions from
facts and principles urged into communi-
cation read before the American Philosophical
Society in 1892: l. That all the claims of
superiority of the whites over the black on
account of their color are founded alike in
ignorance and inhumanity. If the color of
the negroes be the effect of disease instead of
inviting us to tyranize over them, it should
entitle them to double portion of our hui
manity, for disease all over the world has al
ways been the signal for immediate and uni-
versal compassion"
The Doctor (Rush) supposes the black color
of the negro to be disease-a species of Lep-
rosy. He then instances the case of certain
Henry Moss-formerly a negro from the South
who had become changed by a gradual pre-
cess of nature, from black to white man
and suggests the mode of treatment to cure
this disease of the negro. The Doctor con-
cludes by observing, "to encourage attemps
to cure this disease of the skin in negroes, let
us recollect that by succeeding in them we
shall produce large portion of happiness in
the world Weshall in the first place destroy
one Of the arguments in favor of enslaving
the negroes for their color has been supposed
by the ignorant" Twill the Elder" heed
this y "to mark them as objects of divine
judgment and the learned to qualify them
for labor in hot and unwholesome climates !"
" Secondly, we shall render the belief Of the
whole human race being descended from one
pair, easy and universal, and thereby not only
add weight to the Christian revelation, but
remove a material obstacle to the exercise of
that universal benevolence which is incul-
Gated by it,
However we may dissent from the opinion
ofDr. Rush as to the Cause of the color in the
negroes, we must admire his firm faith in
christian Revelation" and to tho g Elder "
and all of his school, whether Political or
chronological, would recommend the Doctors
"Christian Benevolence." c. S. L.
Georgetown, Sept. A, 1868.