The Placer herald., 1866-10-27
The Negro and White Man.
A BIBLICAL VIEW OF THE RACES.


races, says the Lynchburg (Va.) Republican,
in letter written by the Hon. +. w. Pick
ems of South Carolina. AS some people
profess to find it difficult to make the doc
trine OF distinct races barmonize with the
Mosaic account of creation, we present this
for their consideration. It has not been
many years since 1t was almost the universal
belief of Christendom that this physical
globe Of ours was only about six thousand
years old according to the bible, and any
belief to the contrary was considered infdel,
ity But no educated theologian or gentle
man now pretends to deny that the globe is
Of an indefinite age-perhaps millions of
years and that there is nothing in the bible
that conflicts with the progressive deyelop-
ments of geology or physical science May
it not be that similar conclusion will be
reached at no distant day in regard to the
plurality Of races, and that, in the lights of
progressive knowledge, there may be found
to be nothing in the Bible to conflict with
She idea that the negro and the white man
are two distinct creations, and never can be
equals, morally, mentally or physically
MIR. Pickens says: The two races are en-.
contents of negro's skull of the same size
as white mans weigh many ounces less,
showing more specific gravity in the latter
The brain of negro man is n OF so condens-
ed or soldified as that of white man. The
brain of white boy of l3 is more condeus-
ed, more solid, than that of negro man 2G
years old. The hair of negro is a shaft,
with outside scales containing the coloring
matter, and Is, in fact, wool; whereas, the
hair OF the whiteman is a cylindrical tube,
and the colorng matter is the fluid of this
tube. No mixture of the races can ever
amagamate the formation of the hair. The
mu!atto has the cylindrical tube alone, or
the shaft without change. The atlas of the
vertebral column in negro man enters the
head one inch further back than it does in
a white man, making the head of the latter
work more on balance and erect, while
the head of the former has a tendency to
drop or hang down. The nasal angle in the
negro is far more acute than in the white
man, showing its approaches to the nasal
angle in the brute creation. The bone from
the knee joint to the ankle joint in negro
of the same height with white man, is one
inch and quarter shorter than in the white
man, showing his power to rise with weights
The arm, also, from the shoulder to the el
bow is shorter in the negro than in the
white man. The toe of the negro is longer
and more of heel behind his ankle. He also
secretes more through the glands of the
skin, and the white man more through the
kidneys. There are far more glands near
the skin in the negro, and hence bis capaci'
ty to throw off the heat; and its diffusion is
greater, and hence the general odor of body;
whereas the white man secretes more through
the kidneys and does not throw off heat so
readily, but is more easily depressed for con-
gestion. The races never amalgamate per.
manently, for after the fifth generation the
hybrid mixture runs out and is lost. Quad
rooms are mostly barren, or have but few
children, and they are generally week.
Their power for production with white
man soon loses itself, but if interningled
with the black man, or even mulatto, the
race grows more vigorous and numerous and
will come back to the black race in few
generations. But for this there would have
been more anal gamation in our cities and
villages than there has in 200 years. The
races in the rural districts are far more re.
pugnant, because there is there a higher
tone of morality. Northern men and for
eigners settle in the cities and towns, who
are not acquainted with the distinct charac
teristicts Of the races, and have no instinc,
tive prejudice against licentious amaIgama-
ton. The truth is, the two races were crea-
ted at different periods and for different pur'
poses, as is distinctly declared 10 The first
and second chapters of Genesis. In the
first chapter, after a particular account is
given of the dif1ernt creations made on the
first days or periods Of time, then on the
sixth, in the Goth verse, it is declared, "And
God said let us make man; so God created
man in his own image, male and female
reated be them." 9th verse-"Apd God
blessed them, and said be fruitful and multi
ply" And God said, "Behold have given
you herbs bearing seed, and every tree in
which is the fruit Of tree yielding seed, to
you it shall be for meat" 3Oth versa--"And
God saw everything He had made, and be
hold it was very good, and the evening and
the morning were the sixth day." This
closed the work of six days creation, but it
is not to be inferred that these days were
ouAJ 'no icoSeh VI ouA P1oSonI uoJS, uoCouoo
it says "the evening and the morning were
the first day, etc. 1t was not measured by
the rising or the setting of the sun, for the
sun itself was not created until the fourth
day. 18th verse, lst chapter-"And there
had been three days of creation before the
sun and moon were created at all, even the
solid land and the water were made
before there was any SUM-" There certainly
then was some other measure Of day, and
the plain conclusion 10 that it was an era,
period for gradual formation, rather than
what is commonly supposed to be only the
ordinary day as measured by the sun. AT
ter this six days work was finished, i! is dis
tinctly stated that "God rested on the sew
enth day from all his works which be had
made"-2d verse, I'd chapter After the
seventh day, the Sabbath of rest, it is said in
the 5th verse Of the I'd chapter, "The Lord
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