Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-01
Largest Circulation in City and State.
NEGRO SUPERSTITION TN:yIRGINIA
A NEW REVELATION.

III tltNhldtibh among the nesfotA ~ titsS
community, and who are frantic with joy
over what they call ode new rebelation
from de sky :"
A COPY OF A LETTER FROM JESUS CHRIST,
Aud found eighteen miles from Iconi-
nm, sixty-five wears after the cruciiixiOn
of our blessed Saviour, transmitted from the
Holy City by converted jew; faithfully
translated from the Hebrew copy, now in
possession Of the lady Cuby's family, at
Mesopotamia. The letter was written by
Jesus Christ, and found under a great
stone, both round and large, at the foot Of
the Gross, eighteen miles from lconium,
near a village called Mesopotamia. Upon
that stone was engraved, Blessed is he
that shall turn me over" All people that
saw il PRAYED 10 God earnestly. and de-
sired that he would mage known to them
the meaning Of this writing, that they
might not attempt in vain TO turn il over.
In the meantime there came a little child
about six or seven years old, aud turned it
over without help, to the admiration Of
all the people hat stood By, and under
this stone was found letter written by
Jesus Christ, which was carried to the city
of loonium, and there published by per
son belonging TO the lady Cuby, and on the
letter was written the commandments Of
Jesus Christ, signed by the Angel Gabriel,
twenty-eight years after our Saviour's
birth.
A LETTER or JESUS CHRIST.
Whosever worketh on the Sabbath day
shall be cursed / command you 10 90 to
church, and keep the Lords day holy,
withou: doing ans manner Of work. AOH
shall not Idly misspend your time in be-
decking yourselves with superhuities Of
costly apparel, and in dresses, for ] have
ordained il day Of rest will have il
kept holy, that your sins may be forgiven
You. You shall not break my command
ments, bnt observe and keep them, written
with my own hand write them in your
hearts and steadfastly observe this was
written with my own hand and spoken by
my own mouth. You shall not only 90 to
church yourselves, but also your men SER
wants and your maid servants, and observe
my words and learn my commandments
YOU shall finish your labor every Saturday
afternoon by six OF the clock, at which
hour the preparation Of the Sabbath be
gins. / advise you TO fast five Fridays in
every year, beginning with Good Friday,
and 90 continue the four FRIDAYS immedi-
ately following, in remembrance Of the five
bloody wounds received for all mankind
You shall diligently and peaceably labor
IN your respective yocations wherein Il has
pleased God 10 call you. You shall love
one another with brotherly love, and cause
them that are not baptized 10 come 10
church and bear the holy sacrament, viz
Baptism and the Lords Supper, and be
made members thereof; in so doing will
give you long life and many blessings, and
comfort you in the greatest temptations;
and surely he that doth TO the contrary
shall be cursed and Improbable. | will
also send hardness Of heart upon them, till
! have destroyed them, but especially upon
the hardened and impenitent believers:
He that hath given to the poor, be shall
not be Improbable.
Remember 10 keep holy the Sabbath day,
for the seventh day / have taken 10 myself
and he that bath copy of tins letter. writ
ten with my own hand, and spoken with
my own mouth, and keep il without pub
lishiug Il 70 others, shall not prosper, but
be thai publish it TO Others shall be blest Of
me- and though his sins be in number as
the stars in the sky-and be that believes
in this shall be pardcned, and il he believes
not this writing and my commandments,
will send my plaques upon him, and con-
sumo both him and his children and his
cattle. And whoever shall have a copy of
this letter written with my own hand and
keep IL in their houses, nothing shall hurt
them, neither pestllence, lightning nor
thunder shall do them any hurt; and il
woman be with child and in labor, and a
copy Of this letter be about her, and she
firmly put her trust in me, she shall be
safely delivered OF her birth You shall
hear no news Of me but by the Holy Spirit
till the day Of Judgment.
All prosperity shall be In the house where
= copy of this letter shall be found.
The negro who has these documents for
sale claims that the original copy had been
an his masters possession for thirty five
wears that lac obtained 1T in Richmond,
VA but was not aware of his treasury
supposing il lost, until few DAYS since,
when on examining an old trunk she found
the letter. lie, prompted by religious im-
pulses, being a darkey distinguished for
his piety ami intelligence among the ne
groes of this community, did not wish to
he the lone custodian of so important
truth while his brethren were in darkness,
and accordingly had some three hundred
copies printed These have all been sold
with the exception of dozen or so. The
consequences are that this portion Of negro
dom is a perfect ferment. They have for
gotten what Congress- is doing for them,
and the inquiries among them are where
il the rock that concealed this sacred
document? ?? Whose farm or soil has been
made holy by its having been found on it,
and what is the name Of the little girl who
turned over the rock ? Where did she
live? These and some other silly questions
engage the minds Of the deluded race who
have seen and heard Of the publication.
~ This is an additional evidence of their
superstitious predictions, and as indica-
tive ofwhat their condition viii be within
the next half century -relspsed into a state
Of heathenism and idolatrous superstition.
This element in their compositions has
never been so strikingly exhibited until
they assumed their new relations 20 the
white race in the South Here is work for
philanthropicl nkee'missionaries-
their ideal race from idolatrv. NJ.