The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-03-12
Which is the Superior Races-No. 8.
By REV. J. E. WITH.

dreds of thousands of years according
the other ideas Just alluded to. But how
ever long had been the period, howeve
dense the population, however diverse an
varied the people, yet from its settlemer
to its close, or its downfall, G25 befor
Christ, Assyria was still the land of Min
rod, and maintained a prominent pesitie
among the nations even the first. The
commenced the kingdom Of Babylon
which was, indeed, the most powerful 6
all the ancient kingdoms. Nebuchadnez
Ear the great. was a unirersal monarch
The prophet Daniel, calling him the shea
of gold,' of the great image of his yisio
said, Wheresosver the children of me-
dwell, the beasts Of the field, or the fowl
of the Heaven, hath he given into thin
hand, and made thee ruler ever them all.
! And NebuchadnezZar adorned his capita
in manner worthy of himself, SO that i
became the golden city, "the beauty o
the Chaldees excellency," and the 'wonde
of the verdi" And Babylon maintained
its supremacy until Cyrus and Darias, a
the head of the Modes and Persians, driet
up the Euphrates, and took the city 53'
years before Christ.
! Then began the kingdom Of o-Per
STA, or, as it was subsequently, called, Per
| STA. Media and Persia were original,
provinces, or satrapies in the same great
! Assyrian empire, and consequently the
people were descended from the same
source-the family Of Cush. Persia was
tho Iran, or Aryan, of their ancient records
Persia gathered together the largest armies
| of which history gives record. The name
of Xerxes and his 5000, 600 men with which
he invaded Greece, is familiar to every
! school boy. And after him kings Of Per-
STA often went forth to war with over a
million of men. At length Alexander the
Great, at the head of his victorious army,
overthrow Darias, the last king of Persia,
in several great battles, and subverted the
kingdom about 1926 years before Christ
Then began the Macedonian, or Greek SUI
premacy. But who were the Greeks p
Cecrops, with colony from Egypt, settled
on the TOP Of the Acrepolis of Athens 1453
before Christ, and colonized that part of
classic Greece. In fabulous antiquity Cad
mus, with colony of Phenicians, settled
in another part Of Greece, both of them
setting up durable monuments of Phenician
occupation. From these two, Egypt and
Phenicia, was Greece possessed, colenized
and civilized. From both these sources
the Greeks derived their existence from
Ham. Even if the country had been pre-
viously, to some extent, settled, from the
time of Egyptian occupancy, the descend
ants of Ham were the predominant class.
or, in ether words, the Greeks were of
Hamitic extraction.
This kingdom. or the Kingdoms Of Alex
ander, were predominant until overthrown
by the Romans, first in Europe, then in
Asia, and last Of all, in Africa, only %
years before Christ.
Then comes up the Roman empire, and
the inquiry naturally arises, who were the
original Romans? The early history of
BILE sources it seems clear that the Pheni-
clans, who colonized all countries contigu-
GUS to the Mediterranean Sea, were the real
founders. The reputed time of the build
ing of Rome, 1913 before Christ, is the Pc
Rod of the greatest Phenician power and
prosperity. Their history, at that date, is
found in the 9th chapter Of Ezekiel.
They claimed to have been descended
from the fugitives from Troy, after its con-
quest by Greece but if that city ever had
existence outside of Homer's Island, from
its location it was part of Phenicia.
And the Carthagenians, who were said
to have been Of the same cxtraction-Ddo.
the Queen, and Eneas, the Trojan refugee,
being cousins-were csEfessedly colony
of Phcnicians. Besides, there are existing
to this day, many unmistakable monuments
in various parts of Italy, abundnntly show
ing such Phenician occupancy. Taking all
the testimony available on that question,
historians have concluded that this was
their origin. In process of time, Rome
overthrow the Greeks, conquered Carthage
and the adjacent nations, pushed on north
ward and westward, until they had subdued
England and all the nations Of Europe. In
pursuance Of their policy, they placed their
own general, consuls, and field marshals in
all places Of honor, or power, in the subju-
gated countries, until the princes and rulers
of all Europe were almost entirely Romans
These intermarried with the principal FAM
lilies of the several Kingdoms, SO that their
children were the heirs to the various places
of power, and 50 that, when these ceun
tries threw off the power Of Rome, the
same line of kings, dukes and governors
continued down unto this day, or have I'M
til recently The Car of Russia is the
same officer in the empire as was the Gaze
sar Of Rome. This would show that the
principal or ruling families are, or have
been until recently, Of Hamitic extraction
However that be, the power of Rome
the kingdom being transferred by Constan-
tine to ntinople-maintained its po-
sition until about four hundred years age,
when Constantinople was taken by the
Turks.
For all this period, therefore, down
through this line Of history, the descend
ants of Ham held not an inferior, but a SUI
peror, predominating, position among
the nations of the earth, which alone cs-
tablishes our position, that they have been,
or are, the superior race; for we have
shown that, through tho influence Of the
Assyrians, Babylenians, Phenicians, Gre
clans and Romans, their superiority con-
tnued until within a few years, if it is not
in existence even to this day.
If we so to Egypt, the same fact is sus-
tained, Sc long as that was a kingdom
The antiquity of that nation is unques-
Toned Three thousand years age Thebes
was powerful and pepulous city, said to
have had one hundred gates, and from each
OF these gates could send out ten Thousand
warriors, indicating a larger population
than that of any city now in existence and
back of Thebes stand the Pyramids with