Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-21

OF Hlndoo origin, and, according to
tradition, originally bondmen, but con-
verted and manumitted some 800 years
ago. Though Of the same religion, the
two races are, and keep, distinct. In
the interior of Africa, many negroes are
found who profess TO be Jews, practice .
circumcision, and keep the Sabbath.
These are held to be the descendants Of
slaves who were converted by their
masters, and then manumitsed. All the
Jews of the interior of Africa who are
really Of Jewish deseent,-as, for in
stance, IN Timbuctoo, the desert of
Saharas etc, though, of dark complexion
are not black, and retain the eharaeter-
istie cast of features Of their race. So
they do likewise in China
The story of the negro Banker. and
bis writing an almanac, being greatly
exaggerated by writer in the Atlantic
HORtkly, styling him philosopher, etc,
is considerably mixed. 1t was silly sur
missed, at the time that the Ellieotts. of
Maryland, in whose family Banker
formerly ofhciated as a slave, were at the
bottom Of the whole thing. Beside
there is no evidence to show that Ban
mixer was not crossed, or that he was a
full blooded negro.
Toussant POuyerture, whom Phillips
has eulogized as the hero of the mas
saere of st. Domingo, was a mulatto;
and Phillips was well aware of the CIR
cumstanee when he wrote the life Of the
pseudo hero. He was not full blooded
negro, and adopted the name Of the
French family on whose estate he labOred
as slave.
We admit that Ethiopia has been
misunderstood to mean the negro, in
stead of the swarthy ces,-dark-skined
Arabs The word means "sun burned
faces"
Moses wife was q Medenite,-an
Arabian. Cushean is Arabic Nashi
meant the negro. Cush was the son Of
Ham, who settled Egypt. So Moses
wife, after all, was an Arabian woman
and not negress.
The negro, in his native country, is
unimproved, and as semi-barbarbic to-
day as at the time of his first discover.
He Is, and always has been, without self
government. He is the lowest in the
scale Of the human species, and is an
animal of the most passionate and brutal
instincts. BE is the inventor of moth
ing new writes no history builds no
Cities. nor eultiyates the earth; lives
without law, and is under no restraint.
He is obedient to the laws Of climate.
Unlike the white man, his complexion
undergoes no change Of cline. While
Che white man is darkened by the tropi-
cal SUP, the negro is never bleaehed in
the slightest degree by residence in
northern ATTITUDES. Like the Quad
rumana of the tropics, he is inevitably
killed by cold but it never changes his
complexion, his hair, size, skeleton, or
shape of his brain.
We mean by the negro that race of
blacks which are characterized for their
receding forehead, goOlly covering of
the head, thick lips, and fat nasal organ,
with large, projecting jaws. He is
distinct race of the human species, and
did not spring from the white man no
more than the OK came from the horse.
He is not a descendant Of Canaan, and
was never an inhabitant Of Palestine.
And the malediction of Noah on the
children of Ham never included the
negro race. The curse, for an imagin-
airy offence, was on Hams deseendant,-
mis- innocent offspring, and not on the
guilty. Accused be Canasn let him
be dbd-abdim,-slaves of slaves to his
brethren" This curse imposed no
punishment on the black man; he has
never suffered oppression more than has
been the lot of other man. In the
days of the Roman empire, the whole
world, with the exception of about 3d.
600 persons, we're slaves.
The capacity of brain of the negro is
but from 64 to 81 per cent. while the
white race possess from 80 to 125 per
cent Of brain. He is physically in
competent to compete with the sur
rounding races; is an easy prey to their
.rapacity and is a ready instrument in
the hands Of mock philanthropists. His
native country, few miles from his
domicile, is as little known to him as It
is to the inhabitants of the north pole.
And the negro, unerossed by any other
race, admits Of no improvement, but
must remain as the Creator has made
him. There is no hope for him in re-
gard to his higher development, unless
0mnipotenee gives him a new head, with
additional brains. s-a -alr
THOMAS A. N. WARD
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