The weekly loyal Georgian., 1867-08-10

soI win nave az iCdSt tS SoOu 1t ttIie 10 |
the Executive chair as the excellent |
man who now presides over the State.
An Old Fallacy.
They (the negroes) are an inferior race,
incapable of government, and Professor
Agassiz, of Massachusetts,, has recently
made manifest that they had a different
origin from the white race. Hon. y. +.
Perry's last letter.
We believe the theory Of the learned
Swiss Professor has been misunder-
stood or misrepresented, but granting
his theory and the arguments by which
he supports it to be true and valid,
those who are so much afraid of negro
equality ought to be the last to use
them, for their sequence is not only to
make the negro equal but superior to
the white, position that we fatty
deny, for though we wish the negro to
advance, we intend to keep ahead Of
him if possible. Those who have reason
to dread negro equality or superiority
are those that shamefully stand still
and permit him to Oyertake and sur
pass them.
That the theory Of the Professor, as
stated by Mr.. Perry, tends to establish
the superiority of the black race over
the white, we think can be concisely
demonstrated from a source whose
authority mono deny-the teachings of
Scripture. If the blacks had different
origin from the white race, they had
another progcnitor-an Adam of their
own-if they did not descend from our
Adam they did not partake of his
sin, or the condemnation pronounced
against him and his pOsterity. If they
are not therefore subject to the curse
pronounced upon him, they had no
need of Saviou-the great atone
ment for sin was q needless sacrifice
as concerns thcm-missi0ns, churches,
sermons, religious instruction, however
necessary to white mans salvation,
arc works Of supererogatiOn to the
black-unless their first father con-
Quoted himself as imprudently as ours,
in which case they may perhaps need
a similar atoncment; if their Adam
sinncd, they need Messiah Of their
own, for it is not to be supposed that
these learned SacdnS and self.conccitcd
politicians who deny the negro an
interest in our Adam, are going tC
allow him an interest in our Messiah.
1t is difficult to treat the sacrilcSiOu>
| in so serious a manner as such subjects
! should be treated. But if there ap
pears to be impiety in our remarks, il
( is theirs, not ours. Their theory, fol
( lowed farther, undermincs the whole
/ foundation of slavery, which has been
based upon Scripture. Not for the
! black man does the earth bring forth
! thorns and thistles and, if Perry and
Agassiz arc right, it was wrong tC
keep him et0rnally, hoe in hand, chop
ping them down. That was the white
mans business that curse was his
curse, and 50 of all the others. In fine
those who pretend to think that tho
negro is of a different primeval origin
from the white man, had better stop al
Ham it is not at all safe to 20 so fal
back as Adam. We advise the be.
levers in the doctrines of Perry and
Agassiz to have resolutions passed at the
next Democratic Convention, amenda-
/ datory of the Holy Scriptures, so that
many passages may be made to read
according to their ideas. For instance
"As in Adam all whHc men died, and
so,' etc And God said let US make
a rhtte man after our own image
"And he took lrhHc man, and put
him into the garden to dress and trim
it" etc, etc AS Democratic Convcn.
tions do not generally sickle at any
thing to advance their party cause, we
suppose they would make short work
/ of the Bible, if there is any one of the
party sufficiently acquainted with that
Book to find the defective passages.