The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-03-17
Answer to Mr. Dean's Speech
Of February 22nd, in which he
Exposes the formulation Lie, ,"
upon which our Government is
Based.

VI C6OruSfy SS00s In WHICH ne
Exposes the Foundation Lie, "
upon which our Government is
Based.
In his exposure of the "foundation
lie," Mr.. D., accepts the Bible as the
word of God and yet, his very
plausible argument, is not in accor-
dance with divine revelation.
Speaking Of the false idea Of the
races having one common origin,
he says: aIt is not true that any pair
are, or could have been the parents
OF the different races of men," The
Bible teaches that they were, in more
than one place and way. The uni
formitY Of death, is proof of mans
common origin, and fall. Again, up
to the time Of the building of the
tower of Babel, all spoke the same
language. The confusion Of tongues
at that time did not arise out Of any
natural law, but was reversal Of
natures rule, and resulted in dispers-
ing the people who had been bound
together by one co mmon language.
Did God lie when he promised Abra-
ham that he should be the father of
many nations ?
Mr.. Dean says "no living human
being has ever known the same man
and woman, father and mother to
two persons, with the characteristics
of two different races" Isaac and
Rebecca were the parents of twins,
the one achite and the other red
Jacob was the father of the Jews !;
Esau was the father of the Edomites,
whoever cherished the enmity of
their father against his brother
Jacob. Though equally descended
from the patriarohs, Abraham and
Isaac, they continued the determined
enemies Of their brethren, the Jews,
and united with King Nebuchadnez-
Ear, when he beseiged Jerusalem. q
Japheth, Shem and Ham were the
sons Of one pair. Japheth's poster
ity peopled Europe, Asia, Minor
part of Armenia, the north Of Mount
Tarus and probably America. Shem
signifies renown. His descendants
occupied the regions OF upper Central
Asia, Media, Persia, Syria, &c. Ham
signifies black. His posterity peo-
pied the hot southern regions of
Asia, Persia, Egypt, Lydia and
Africa. "Cursed be Canaan (the son
of Ham.'O In accordance with this
denunciation, the nations which God
destroyed before the Israelites, were
descendants of Ham. So wore the
Phenicians and Carthagenians, who
were subjugated by the Greeks and
Romans and the African nation,
whose miseries have been proverbial
through the worid, BY the operations
Of the horrible slave-trade, are also
descendants of Ham according to
history, both divine and profane.
The learned Mr.. D., says eff you
inquire about the origin Of the Negro
and his Bible history, am free to
| declare my utter ignorance on this
subject" What an Orator, States.
man and Historian, pleading igno-
rant of fact that every school boy
in the land is, or might be conversant
with and that you yourself made
use of as hobby, when it suited
your political purposes 2
| If in any case, the word Of God
| seems to clash with natural laws, be
It remembered that the laws of ma
ture are but the activewill Of ] Jehovah;
and He who bid the sea to flow back.
ward and the sun aud moon to stand
still, might by another act of his AL.
mighty will, reverse the rule of rep.
reduction for purposes of his own,
Is not nature obedient to Gods will I
If not he is loss than infinite, and
not the master ofhis own work.
Mr.. Dean says "it is not true that
various races OF men have an equali
ty of mind, or a community of senti
ments. The distinction between the
races are unquestionable and ebso
!ute." Granted; sophistry might
sorve as q blanket to cover up soft
brains, but intellects that have kick
ed the blanket q few times, grow
strong enough to perceive truth'i
clear rays through, and beyond al
sOphistlcal argument.
| Again Mr.. Dean says "we have re
ceived no Bible of the Negro, mol
from any of the lower races" Th'
universality of tho Bible, and it,
adaptationto allclasses and condition
of men, is its peculiar attribute, ant
|, sets the seal Of divinity upon it, ant
makes all other revelations super
fluous, though intensely national, it il
yetof no nation. While strictly loca
it belongs to no locality. Its song
, vibrate through the bosoms Of ou
universal brotherhood, and its sacre,
truths are the connecting links tha
bind the nations oft earth in one
, and unite them to our common
father, God. It is sublime il
, its unity; for though commence
before the birth Of profane letters
, and not finished till the Augustine
, age Of literature; though the worl
, Of forty different writer's, who, ser
f arated by centuries, could no
possibly have collusion, and rar
ging in social position from prince
and lettered scribes, to herdsmen an
, unlettered fishers, might be SUPPOSE
to differ widely in their views an
impressions yet this wondrous vo
, ume, which thus grew to what
now is, part by part, slowly, at lon
, intervals, under different hands, il
J strangely varied circumstance
, during one entire millennium an
] half another, is to be seen like a
: unbroken bow stretching acros
the divided ages the compact an
) completed arch of truth, with on
r limb resting on creations prime, th
other on the end of time; as eviden
ly an emanation from one master
hand. The shafts of ridicule th
!. arrows Of scorn, have been she
J. at it from a thousand quivers. Th
wit has made it the butt OF his sui
!. ject, the cynic Of his snarls, tt
humorist of his bufoonry.
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