The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-11
From the Old Guard, Of Feb. 1870.
THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF
RACES.
By Hoy. john E. HANNA, OF M'CoE-
~XELSvILLE, ONO.

ana QulleSj socially anu pOllIlcdlly
while any right or privilege awarded to
one and denied to another, would be
an infringement of these common
rights. God created all men and al
also all races of men, as well as
the inferior animals and as creatures
of Ills, they have certain rights am
ong these the right of life. But, be-
cause the horse has a right to live, il
does lot follow he is mans brother, OF
his equal il all things. Each creature
should have all things suitable and
proper for him in his own sphere.
five had one common p~rogenito1
we would be constitutionally alike, as
the law of nature teaches that like be-
gets like. That there is a constitu-
tional difference between the white
man and the negro is evident. There
is not only the obvious difference in
color, hair, shape of head and limbs,
but anatomy shows us hat a negro's
liver is larger, and his lungs smaller
than those of the white man and ply
siology that the part the liver per-
forms in the negro's economy is grea-
ter, and that of the lungs and kidneys
less, than in that of the white. Mr..
Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia,
suggests the difference between the
pulmonary apparatus of the two races
THAT the negro does not extricate as
much caloric from the air by respira-
ton, and consequently consumes less
oxygen" He also calls attention to
the fact of the defective kidneys of the
negro.
DR.. Cartwright says:
NEGRO children and white children
are alike at birth in n remarkable
part;cular-they are both white, and
so much alike, so far as color is rom
cernt-d, as scarcely to be distinguished
from each other. In a very short time,
however, the skin of the negro infant
begins to darken, and continues to
grow darker, until it becomes of a shi-
ming black color. Provided the child
be healthy, the skin will become black
whether exposed to the air and light,
or not The blackness is not of as
deep a shade during the first years If
life as afterwards. The black color Is
not as deep in the female as in the
male, nor in the feeble. sickly negro
as in the robust and healthy"
DR.. Cartwright also notes the fact
that, birth, the brain of the white
child . enclosed by fifteen disunited
plates, and that of the negro but by
tenth frontal and temporal bones in
the latter being in n piece, instead
of six pieces, as in the white the rea,
son for which is evident. He further
says
1.-THE great German anatomists, Mel
ners, Ebel and Scommering, a bear
witness 70 tie fact that the muscles,
blood, membranes, and all the intern
al organs of the body, the bones excep.
ted, are of Il darker hue in the negro
than in the white man. They estimate
the difference IN color to be equal to
that which exists between the hare and
rabbit. Whoever doubts the fact, OF
has none of those old and impartial au-
thorities at hand-impartial because
they were written before England adj
opted the policy of pressing religion
and science into her service to place
the white American republican free
man and the Guinea negroes upon the
same platform--has only to look into
the mouth Of the first healthy typical
negro he meets, to be convinced ofthe
truth that the entire membranous lin
ing of the inside of the cheeks, lips,
and gums is of a much darker color
than in the white ma The negro
must be healthy, and in good condi-
ton Sickness, hard usage and chro
mic ailments speedily extract the color,
ing matter out of the mucou memb-
ranes, leaving them paler than in the
Caucasian race"
Thus we see that there is a natural
constitutional difference in the two IA.
ees of men; ar d five rely on the law Of
nature, we cannot arrive at the con,
elusion that both races came from q
common paternity
But we arc told that the Bible tea,
ches we have all sprung from Adam
The Bible being a revelation from God
to a we must believe that, even il
It should contradict all science and
history. Science is but the enlighten,
ed view of the law of nature. The law
of nature is the rule established by the
Creator in the fol ming and sustaining
of Ills work, and is entitled to full ere,
dence. 1t must be true. Now, the
Bible being a revelation from God, ii
and the law of nature must harmonise,
because the same fountain can not
send forth sweet and bitter water al
the same time. Under these circum-
stances, what is the duty of all who re
we're the Bible 2 Is it not to examine
and see if its teachings can be harmon
lied with the law of nature 2
Does the Bible contradict the law Of
nature in reference to the creation Of
the human race 1t does not follow
that if men are not all of one race, that
they are not all human beings-that
the genus homo must necessarily have
but one species. We think the Bible
in perfect accord with the law of ma
ture, but we admit there is a construc.
ton which differs; and many of these
constructionists have done more to
weaken Biblical authority than Paine,
Voltaire, and all of that school. We
remember when a person would have
been mathematical if he had doubted
that the work of creation was perform
ed during six diurnal revolutions OF
the earth around the sun, as at one
time it was held impious to doubt that
the sun revolved around the earth ev,
cry twenty-four hours. But the view
now entertained by intelligent men Of