Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-01-03
Neqroes not an inferior Race.


defined prejudice against the colored {
people of this country. There is not E
the same, if any, feeling against the {
the Chinese, Japanese o +
TartarS. This antipathy or prejudice
arises in part if not mostly from an
idea that the African is an inferior
race. That they are the descendants
of Ham, and therefore inferior to the
descendants of Sham and Japhet.-
1t has been held by some learned
men, that Noah cursed Ham, and
made his descendants heWers of wood
and drawers of water, or the servants
Of Shem and Japhet forever. That
servitude is therefore their normal |
condition, and to elevate them to an
equality with the whites, or COPPER
colored, is to fight against God. But
an examination Of the scriptures will
show the dullest mind that Noah did |
not curse Ham. And history shows
that if he did, God turned the curse
into a blessing For the descendants
of Ham were the predominant race
for two thousand years after Noah,
if they are not even at this day. We
will take the divine narrative for our
guide The 10th chapter Of Genesis,
gives US all we know of the original
disposition of the sons of Noah
Verse 5th informs us that the children
of Japhet divided the isles Of the
Gentiles among them. Then verse
9Th, commences the history Of Ham,
and all between that and the 31st
verse relates to the same family
According to verse 7 one Of the grand
sons of Ham, was named Dedan. At
ter him was the city Of Dedan named,
which city was the capital of Phenicia.
Hence Phenicia was settled by the
descendants Of Ham. This was the
cradle of commerce, and the most
maritime nation of antiquity, coloniz-
ing Carthage and most of the coun-
tries on the Mediterranean sea.
Verse 8th, brings forward another
grandson Of Ham, Nimrod, the mighty
hunter Verse 10th, informs us that
Nimrod founded t h e kingdom of
Babylon. Verse 18th says out of
that land went forth Asher, and build
ed Nineveh, and Rehoboth, and Caleb
In other words, he laid the foundation
of the Assyrian kingdom, named from
: himself Ashan-Assyria, Of whic h
Nmeveh was the capital. Some learn
ed men have held, that ASSyria was
founded by Asher the son OF Shem,
because there was such a descendant
of that family. But verse Goth, con-
, fines it to the sons of Ham, for after
a continuous narrative of IA verses, it
says, These are the sons of Ham, af-
ter their families, after their tongues,
in their countries, and in their nations.
And if anything were lacking to prove
that Assyria was colonized, and the
kingdom built by her descendants,
the prophet Micah, 5: 6, calls it the
land of Nimrod. Here therefore we
) have three Of the principal historical
: nations Of antiquity, all peopled by
the descendants of Ham. To these
may be added Egypt, called by the
, PSalmist, the land Of Ham. Take
then their history, and it establishes
: beyond eavil the position that for
1000 years the descendants of Ham
ruled over all other people, or at least
they were the predominant kingdom.
Assyria, disputing the position sue
cessfully with the Egyptians, was the
predominant kingdom from the dis
persion at Babel to the overthrow of
Nneveh by Nabopolesser the father
of Nebuchednezzer, 625 years B. c..
Then commenced the Babylonian king
dom, which under acknowledgements,
was the most powerful and extensive
kingdom that ever existed. Second
David 2: 81, 49, Babylon contin-
ued the predominant kingdom until
Belshazzer was slain, and Babylon tax
en- by Cyrus, and Darius, at the head
Of the Modes and Persians. Media
and Persia, were originally provin-
ces, or satrapies of the same great
Assyrian Empire, living in the north
east, as Babylon was another, living
in the south; therefore they too were
the descendants of Ham. Media, and
J Persia, or Persia, as they both took
that name ultimately, was the most
powerful kingdom, until it was over
thrown by Alexander the Great, at
the head of the Greeks, 1926 years B.
G. Historians do not agree as to
) the origin of the Greeks, one part
holding that they were of Phenician
origin, and others that Cadmus, with
a colony from Egypt, colonized Greece
, 1853 years B. G. But whichever
way it be settled, whether of Picnic
ians or Egyptian extraction, they
were still the defendants of Ham,
The Greeks were the principal his
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