The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-08


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The alarm Of fire which was sounded last night
stance streets. At the late hour ct which this IL
written il Is impossible to give particulars, but
from al indications the fire was Q small one and
was coon extinguished. tt'-et ~ i
Major II II. DELAYS Lecture On the Afri-
can Race.
This negro delivered his lecture, entitled "The
Progress Of Civilization and the Origin Of Rsces
and Color" at the National Hall, Poydras street.
last evening, before an audience composed almost
exclusively OF, negroes, and NOS the most intelli-
gent Of negroes at that, with the exception OF
some twenty-five or thirty persons, who, from
their educational advantages, could have under
stood the majors argument and theory Of the orr
gin and grandeur Of the coored race in the
ancient days when the city of Thebes was
built. He commenced his lecture by severe
reprmand to the colored race In general for Their
being ashamed of their color and BY the general
weakness of the defense Of the mulatto, quad
room and octaroon. as 10 their having colored
blood in their veins that the main object Of this
lecture was to induce q pride of race among the
colored people that before he got through he
would compel any of the first families Of Virginia,
the baughty 6oath Carolinian and the supercilious
Louisianian to knowledge the dignity of the
negro, and the quadroons and the octoroons be
proud OF their colored blood but the colored race
must be true to themselves, and not live by hang
ing on to the skirts OF the white people /; that
his object was to difase knowledge among
thoee Of his own race, to make them equal to the
requirements Of the age and progress of civilza-
ton among other races Of men, with q specially of
tracing their origin from the descendants Of Noah.
He disputed the Champ lion theory, which IL that
the man first created by God was black, when the
Almighty not being satisfied with his work, created
another, who was yellow or red; this not pleas
ing him much more than the first he created q
third man, who white, with all the characters
tics OF the Caucasian race but claimed that the first
man created (Adam) was, as his name signifed, red
or yellow. This brought him to The point who were
the progenitors OF the present races. The sons
OF Noah, and they were Shem. Ham and
Jsphet. With the descendants of Ham he would
deal mostly, whose four sons settled In various
parts Of Eastern Asia and Africa. He contended
that civilization was propagated by three agen-
cies-engration, revolution and conquest; that
Nimrod, the mighty conqueror who founded the
Assyrian empire, was grandson OF Ham, and,
therefore, negro; that with his conquests he car.
ried civilization into Asia; that Sesostres. the
great Egyptian king, who founded the city Of
rbebes, on the banks OF the Nile, with his
Of civilization into the same country, and who set
up two pillars on the banks of the Indus, with
this inscription upon them Sesostres, the King
Of Ki5gs, has conquered the world to the line Of
these Pillars" was another negro, that the Eyyp-
tians who held the children Of Israel 80 long In
bondage were negroes and as the highest en-.
comium hesped upon Moses is that he was learn
ed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; that the
Jews borrowed their religion from them, together
with their laws. for instance Jethurs giving laws
to Moses, which were reduced to statutes and
written in The Book of Judges; that the bulldog
Of the Temple was not completed until visited by
the negro princess. who supplied it with treasure,
and entered the Holy Of Holes through her wis
dom, where none but the two grand masters were
permitted to enter; that Christ, the Savior Of the
world, was warned TO go among the negroes for
safety, until they who sought his life were dead.
After the mission of his ministry and his condem.
nation TO death upon thu cross the type of sal
walton, which was 10 have been borne upon Cal
vary, the plan of salvation would have been de.
fested but for the negro who bore the cross in
stead of Christ.
The lecturer then gave his views upon the origin
Of color, giving the physiological construction Of
the skin, which contains the matter of color. In
the substance termed retenuc0sunl is the coloriug
matter, said be; this structure which is cellular
or honeycomb-lke, In the pure white race is
nearly empty, or containing a perfectly trsnsps-
rent substance, the retenuc0suns itself being
colorlets. 10 the yellow races the coloring mat.
ter in these cells is red, slightly modified by the
economy OF the system. In the black races the
cooring matter Is the same without any modifca.
ton, being intensified by concentration, becoming
q pigment which is simply concrete or concen-
trated rouge, so that the color Of the blacklist
African, and that OF the rosy tints on the cheeks
OF the most delicate white, or Caucasian, lady are
identcally the same In substance, that in the white
being but rouge IN small quantities, mixed
with corloTless matter, while that in the African is
compact by concentration.
As final TO his lecture, the lecturer again urged
upon his hearers to be true TO themselves, that
they need not be ashamed of their originstors, for
no race on the face of the earth had such history
as theirs.
II was certainly remarkable lecture to come
from such man.