The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-11-13
scriptural Genealogy of the Negro,


|. Or. Adam CLARK, in his Gem.
mentary on the 3rd chapter Of Gent.
sis, seriously argues that If serpent
had spoken to Eve she would have
been so terrified as to be incapable Of
replying, aud that the sentence pro.
nounccd on the Temp.sr implies. it
was an animal which previously walk
cd erect. From taeso premises he
deduces the preposierous conjecture
that the animal which tempted Eve
was not serpent but M onrang
outaug One error usually bogots
smother. The ourang -outang makes
the nearest approach to the human
skeleton of all animals, aud is color
is black 1t required OILY another
step in exiravacance to Irausmute the
tempter of Eve into negro and
the prepostcrous conjecture Of Dr.
Clark seems to have suggested to DR.
Cartwright the iden. In an article,
published in De Bows Review some
years before the war, he coniendcd
that the Hebrew word Nacash, which
is translated in the English Bible,
serpent, should be translated black
aud tina, this black tcmptor, walking
erect and having organs Of human
speech, was n negro man, who was
Adams gardener aud slave, aud tho
progeni,or of the race From De
Bows Review this absurd idea has
been reproduced with lcss force but
with greater absurdity and ox raya-
ganco. This plagiarism, with all the
absurdity and extravaganza attend
ing it, is the leading idea Of tho
pamphlet by "Aricl, which created
such a sensation, showing that the
fools are not yet all dead II dc.
serves niche IN the museum of
curiositios which the negro question
has produced. But i, is not proba
Bile that any person who has not par
ted company with common sense,
and does not eonstruo all Biblical
history into mlrth, will be induced
to believe that an animal which was
sentenced "to go on i,s belly and T.
eat dust all the days of iis life, YVES
the progcuitor of the negro race.
Tho sentence acoords with thc shape
and condition Of the serpent, and
with that of no other animal.
2. Fletcher in bis studies on
slavery, employs a wonderful amount
of learning in Hebrew and Arabic
philology in tracing the genealogy
Of the negro race through the ark in
the person OF Hams wife, and
through the antediIuvial period to
Cain, whose nlme, he contends,
means black From these promises
he deduces the conclusion that the
mark which the Lord set upon Cain
was to transmuta him into a negro
and to make him the progenitor Of
the negro race But the Mosaic
history relates that his family were
the inventors Of the harp and the
organ, and the working Of metals, -
taleGts that never belonged to the
negro race that his daughters were
fair, and their intermarriagcs with
the family of Seth produced race
Of men who, while corrupted in
morals and religion, were iptellectu.
ally and physically superior to their
fathers. These items Of their history
prove positively that Cain was not u
negro.
3. A more common y advanced
theory has been to trace the genealo-
gv Of the negro race, through the
Canani,cs whom God commissioned
tho Isracli!es to exterminate or re
duce to slavery, to Canaan, and to
ascribe their origin to the curse which
Noah pronounced upon him." Cur
sed be Canaan, a servant of servants
shall he DO unto his brethren" But
the history suggests one small obIec-
aion to this fancy. The destroying
sword Of the israoliies spared scr
wants of the Canaanites, who in sue.
cceding years multiplied and perpet.
ua,ed their family Their descend
ants we're not black, but white. The
Tyrians and Carthagcnians were all
Csnaanites, aud as white " the Ores
clans and Romans. Hannibal was a
Canani,e, and as white AZ Soipio.
Dido, queen of Carthage, was "A Ca
naauitc Hut 1t would spoil the ro-
nance of the Eneid and Virgil =
description of her beauty to insin-
uate tha3 she was a negro woman,
| 4. But the prophet asks, Can
the Ethiopian change his skin" The
question conveys an evident allusion
to tho indciblc color Of the negro.
The eighteenth chapter Of Isaiah
contains a prophecy in regard to the
Kingdom Of Ethiopia Wo to tho
land shadowing with winga, which is
beyond the rivers Of Ethiopia
Many other passages Of the Old Tcs'
lament refer to The same country, and
the New Testament relates the con
version and baptism Of the Ethiopian
Eunuch on his journey TO his coun
try from Jerusalem This kingdom
was in Africa, south Of Egypt on
the head waters of the river Nile
aud embraced the modern Kingdom
Of Nubia and Abyssinia. To thil
day these people have not changed
their skin. In the section next tt
Egypt they are yellow-but higher
up tho Nile, this complexion decpen'
: into = jet black. The same complex
ion spreads from the southern border
=. of Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope
F, and from tho Indian to the Atlantic
, ocean, with varying shades in differ
. ont tribes from light yellow to I
, jet black, but connected With hair
! features, and characteristics whicl
identify all the tribes, ,oa;a q ssyf
. aud the Atlas mountains, ms negroes
: The northern slope Of Afrien, esten
1 ding along the Hs!.,e--"esa com
, posed of Egypt and the section oortl
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