Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-02

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development of the negro in the South
to encourage the adoption Of negro suf-
we had thought that jour
not quite so ignorant as the third
hybrids had long ago been
or hard learned, enough of the
in regard to Egyptian civiliza-
ton not to be party to such n blunder as
we now record. We find the above ex-
in substance, in a journal printed
not n great distance of, so changed in its
appropriation as to affect an acquaint-
ance on the part Of the manipulators
with the writings of Lepsius, Wilkin-
and Cosmopolitan, writings OF
the moulders were evidently
quite ignorant as they justify no such
conclusions as are made in their name.
Now let US see about the negroes
"civiliza,ion" as shown in Egypt. We
will take Bsysrd Taylor as authority.
He is an sbolitionist-always was. He
made the trip into central Africa in
1852, on the line of the Nile, and visited
nearly all the great ruins adjacent to its
bank on the entire route. His observa-
tons 90 to II much greater extent in the
direction Of repudiating the ideas OF the
extreme Radicals than we had any an
ti~cipation of, until we re-examined his
Central Africa" a few days ago.
Speaking of the decorations Of the
tombs, among the ruins of Thebes, he
says, page lis Of Central Africa
MANY of the figures are remarkable
for their strength and freedom Of out
line. | was greatly interested in q pro.
cession of men, representing the differ
ent nations of the earth. The physical
peculiarities of the Persian, the Jew
and the Ethiopian are therein as dis
tiuctly marked as az the present day.
The blacks are perfect counterparts of
those I saw daily upon the Nile, and
the noses of the Jews seemed newly
painted from the originals in New York.
So little diversity in the distinguishing
features of the race, after the lapse OF
more than three thousand years, Is a
strong argument in favor Of the new
theological theory Of the separate origin
Of different races. Whatever objections
may be urged against this theory, the
fact that the races have not materially
changed since the earliest historic times,
is established by these Egyptian records,
and we must either place the first ap-
pearance Of nan upon the earth many
thousands Of years in advance Of Bishop
Usher's chronology, or adopt the con-
clusion of Morton and Agassiz."
And again, OF page 1853, of "Central
Africa" Bsyard Taylor says:
ssThose friends of the African race,
who point to Egypt as a proof Of what
that race has accomplished, are trholty
mistaken. The only negro features rep
resented in Egyptian sculpture are those
of slaves and captives taken in the Ethi-
opian wars Of the Pharoahs. The TEN
pies and pyramids throughout Nubia,
as far as the frontiers Of Oar Fur and
Abysiuia, all bear the hieroglyphs Of
these monarchs, and there IS no evidence
in all the Valley Of the Nile that the negro
race erer attained a higher degree Of eir'!'-
satioa than is at present exhibited IN Congo
and A~shdatee."
And, on pages 236 and 237, Bayard
Taylor says that the monuments Of
Egypt" were constructed not by ne
groes, but by CaueaIsians; in which as
sertion he is sustained by Lepsius. As
read:
"The sculptures at Meroe Tin Ethio-
pia also establish the important fact
that the ancient Ethiopians, though OF
a darker complexion than the Egyptians
las they are in fact represented, in
Egyptian sculpturs), were, like them, an
oS.shoot of the great Caucasian race"
"The theory Of Pocoke and other schol-
ars, based on the presumed antiquity OF
Meroe, that here was the FIRST dawning
on African soil Of that earliest Indian
civilization, which afterwards culminat-
ed at Memphis and Thebes, is over
thrown; but we have what is of still
greater signi6cance-the knowledge that
the highsst eipilization in epery age of the
eorld, has been developed By the race TO
,rhieh zee belong"
Lepsius, in his Letters" says, on
the same subject:
"The Ethiopian name comprehended
much that was dissimilar among the au-
clients. The ancient population of the
whole Nile Valley as far as Khartoum,
and perhaps, also, along the Blue River,
as well as the tribes Of the Desert to the
east Of the Nile, and the Abyssinian
nations, were in former times probably
even more distinctly separated from the
negroes than now, and belonged to the
CdueassiGn race"
We hope we shall hear no more from
our Radical proIimities of the equality
of the negro with the Caucasian race,
"as proved by the ruins of their mon
uments in Egypt" But, on the con
,rary. after the above quotations which
we have been at the trouble to make
shall have gone the rounds of the CAL
ifornia press, as did u extracts from
Prof. Wells, the ramfusticus mulattoes
will copy them, and meekly declare that
the ablest thinkers" have ever been
Of I" this " opinion.
History, everywhere, shows the eau
eassian the superior" and the negro,
greatly, the " inferior race"