The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-24

II ATTEST that the several o1IE3oa included
In this vast range wete anteriefly occupied
BY race Of men black in color and Of com.
manding stature; by siants, and - popular
superstition represented them, devils; ia
which vulgar error we are, even at THU
distant day, indebted for the conmon usage
Of associating with the dethroned Arch
angel whatever is blackest and most full
gin0us in our conceptions. That. these two
characteristics, but especially thkt of color,
appertain principally TO the Chamites, ia
an assertion not easily contest&d. Tradi-
ton records that mighty physical revolu-
ton occurred about the time Of the Japetic
invasion, in the southern parts Of the East
ern Continent, probably twenty centuries
anterior to our era and, on this point geo.
logy and physical geography corroborate
by permanent proofs the af1rmations of
tradition. This revolution was not aque-
Gus, but volcanic; it was not deluge, but
an epyrosis albeit, it produced in many
places partial cataclysm, and, owing to it.
earthquakes, as recently in South America,
were speedily followed by tidal waves.
Historically this revolution caused second
desperation of the human family not unlike
the one which took place in the days of
Phaleg, but it's principal effect was the
| utter expatriation of the race of Cham, and
the substitution for it of Japhets descend
| ants with their less adulterated civiliza-
ton.
Chamitic heterodoxy consisted In crude
emanationism, immoral in its essence, and
ferocity. Obscenity and ferocity are the
two perverse affections of the human heart,
by which the moral law is perpetually re-
sisted but, according to the differences of
rigorous Pantheism, they are legitimate
and divine in direct proportion with their
uncomfortable violence and impetuosity.
Religion, the foundation of which was poi
soned with those two fatal Ingredients,
consisted exclusively in the worship of the
evil genius, at once destructive, and, as is
the case now with our refined Christian
pantheists, unmentionable Of which we
discern the proofs among all the peoples
who preceded the Japetic invasion, and
even in our own day have evidences in the
shocking ceremonies observed by the scat
tered members of an unblest parentage.
The rites and symbols used were not I'M
worthy of the horrid object, to whose SER
vice they were auxiliary, or of the dismal
temper of the souls, by whom they were
adopted and observed. Prostitution in the
name of religion and the immolation of
human victims were, SO to speak, the sacra-
ments of the Chamites; and in keeping
with these shameful and repulaive devo-
tions were the symbolisms Of Kts1 and the
Serpent, that slimy, disgusting and gener-
ally venomous reptile, associated 80 init
mately with the worship Of the. Earth and
the primitive disaster which befs cur spe-
cies. In their architectural mS,nrments,
for an analogous reason, the c3nical and
pyramidal form was most popular, and in
their iconography, whether sculptured or
painted, predominance was given, to the
black, the ugly, the monstrous and the hor-
ribleA; to the unsightly combination in the |
same image Of the human form and the
brute, and of zoolatrous emblems, gener-.I
ally borrowed from some species inferior
to the mammals, with the revolving orgies
of very great and most numerous people |
addicted to this degrading form Of worship |
could be established by the most indispu-
table proofs, and it is attested by the ia
petite reforms themselves, which, while |
they abolished the horrors and crueities of |
the more ancient rite, yet retained and |
preserved the primitive tradition of the |
Fall and the Serpent, from which the rite !
took its origin, bat free from its Chamitic
adjuncts Of prostitution and human sacri !
fee; and with almost Christian propriety,
sent back to his dominions in hell the
Genius of evil, whom in our day, as he did
in the days of Javar, the doubly darkened
African tremblingly adores. We throw !
out these hints for the benefit of our un-
fire-eaters and uninflammable re-
alike. We disclaim all
allusion to the pitiful politics of the day,
but while we proceed with our develop
ment of the eternal principles, without
which any, and in particular, political,
science is impossible, we cannot. as an
honest man, hesitate to indicate to our
fellOw-countrymen, the errors they commit
and the proper way of rectifying them.
The contrariety between the two rival in
we have been glancing at flashes
ON us more brightly in the emblems adopt