The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-01-02

lam, very truly, yours,
J. +. BRYANT.
EARLyILLK, Jan. 1, 1859.
Col. J. i. BRYANT, Of the House Of Representa-
tisss, atlanta. Ga:
Dear Sr-Since my article under the caption
Of "Mastodon in Earlville" appeared in the Free
Trader OF Dec 9th ultimo reply to the same
article has appeared in the same paper in its is
sue Of Dec. 10, 1868. The reply as you will SEQ
by the paper sent you, is so canhRg and peak in
manner and matter, as to afford no light to any
one on the subject. 1t was evidently written BY
one Who has no knowledge of Zoology, although
he may think he knows something about geclo-
gy. But to your letter. This is what did not
mean. did mean the class of animals, as class
lied by naturalists, have not once existed, and
subsequently became extinct, rs classes. These
classes are made for convenience, and entirely
artificial, precisely as we use the terms up and
dotsa, east aud uest, when no such state or con.
dition ever existed in nature. Let me farther
illustrate. Now | assert that Adam was created,
and ever since his creation, the animal, man, has
existed on this earth. Man has been classified
into various classes or rscea Take for example
She American, the negro and the European
white man. These all had one common father
one common origin, and whoever saws they had
not, is fool and hath said in his heart there is
NO God Now were all the white men on the
earth TO become extinct and the negro alone TO
be left, | would still assert that man had never
become extinct. Now thousand years hence,
some naturalist or natural fool from Boston. will
sxhume ain the swamp near Newburg, n Y,
the skeleton of a negro. and ON examination Of
the skull, will declare that it belonged in its
day and generation TO an animal entirely differ
emit from man.
-. - s.,L. = al. T. H..
lean, the negro and the white man. SO that all
these classes go to make up the animal man
precisely is in the language OF Pope, "the DAY
and man are individual makes" Now when the
white man disappears from the earth under re-
publican rule, aud the Negro Is the only race or
class left worth naming still IL can be truthful
ly and Ioo!ogically asserted that man i. not ex-
tinct. animal. The white man may have
become extinct, but tho negro had the same
fathei-the same common origin, and is a man
and brother and hence man is not extinct. An
other illustration if You please
The Mammoth, the Big Buffalo or as the
Hebrews designated this animal Behsmoth
was an Elephant, nearly allied to the Elephant
OF India. In the year A d. 1899, one Of these
animals in An entire state thawed cut Of an ice
bank near the mouth OF river, in the north of
Siberia. It's remains have been found on both
continents"
Now | claim that the E,ephan. is distinct
animal from all other animals having a separate
origin. Now classify the Elephant under the
heads following, to wit: Mammoth. Mastodon,
Hippopotamus, Tapir, and the Elephant is an
Elephant still. "By calling cats tail . leg
does not make it leg the poor old cat has but
feur legs still.
Button says the Mammoth or Behemoth is no
other than the Elephant; and Baton with me
Ia quite good authority when ho and can per-
fectly agree. 1t is well known TO any one at all
familiar with Zoology that tho mammoth or
Behemoth is four or FIVE times larger than the
ordinary sized Elephant. care not how many
classes OF animals may obtain among naturalists,
ii these classes had one common origin, then the
animal is not extinct, but stll exists and is the
same identical animal
II you will recur to the Chicago Times Daily
Of Dec. "a ultimo, which is herewith enclosed
you will therein read highly interesting cor
respondence between the late Thomas Jefferson
and his friend Col. Stewart, late of Greenbrier,
West Virginia. .44 .saE
President Jefferson in enc OF those letters to
Col. Stewart, uses the folling remarkable phil
o.ophical language:
II cannot help believing that the Mammoth
is still existing. The humiliation Of any species
of existence Is so unexampled in any parts of
the economy of nature, which we see, that We
have right to conclude as to the parts We do
net see, that the probabilities against such. ami
hilation the stronger for it," s-sy-
God never intended any animal should become
extinct Hence at the time Of the food, God
saw the necessity Of preserving pairs of all the
animals upon the face Of the e.-th in order that
no animal might become ex,in's. Pairs Of Ele-
plants were then preserved, AMI so dswn to the
smallest animals Pairs of MAJ we're preserved
in order to perpetuate the higher order of ami
mails upon the face Of the earth.
- In the Boston Museum 10 preserved the sksls-
ton OF what the sapans call Mastoion assert
that the same animal, or the animal to which
the skeleton belongs, is not now extinct. Ask .