The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-01-19

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the difference between a white man
and negro, they can have no difficulty
in making the difference between ne.
gro and gorilla, or chimpanzee, then,
between the chimpanzee and the glib.
bon; then between the gibbon and the
kakau; then between the kakau and
the mona,-thence down, through the
chaoma, the drill, the chance, the
coaita, the sajou, the couxio, the 81
miri, the marmoset, the lemur, the
loris, and the whole order of qladra,-
mana, and thence on through the quad
rupeds, down to the realm of infusor-
ial life. If climate can make the diff
ference between, the man. of Mount
Caucasus and the man of Mount At
las, shall it not have the credit of ma
king the difference between the various
species of animals of these different
zones? The animals of these differ
emf geological centres do not differ
more than the men. IF the men had
a common origin, why not the animals (?
Once established; the physical law
which creates the divergent types of
men out of a common parentage, and
the while phenomena Of living nature
may be accounted for without any 9TH
er God than the forces of matter
And this is precisely the theory of the
scientific disciples of what is called
Darwinism. Thus Oxen says: "Man
is developed, not created" And Heck
lie does not hesitate to boldly refer to
4" Our animal ancestors" Nothing was
created, but everything grew. The
men of Asia, of Africa, and Europe
are different, only because they have
been moulded, or have grown, under
the pressure of time and different cir
cumstances. The doctrine of divine
revelation, that "God has made. men
to differ" can according to this phil
osophy, only mean that climate and
accident made them to differ. Indeed,
according to the Darwinism theory,
adopted by our Congress and our
schools of political theolegians, there
is no other God but Climate and Ac-
cidents No other God is needed to ac-
count for the whole phenomena of the
different fora and fauna Of the var
ious zones of the earth. 1t is certain
that our clergy would shrink with hor-
ror from such appalling doctrines; but
they are, nevertheless, the only logical
to, be drawn from their
premises, of the common parentage of
Indians, Caucasians, Negroes, Mongo-
lians, etc. Such premises conceded,
leaves the theologian no escape from
the infidel theory of a developed, rath
er than created phenomena of being
that is, developed by the inherent
forces of matter, rather than created
by an Infinite Mind. To illustrate =
according to this theory, the giraffe
did not receive its peculiar long neck,
fitting it to gather its food from trees,
from any direct creating power; but
the habit of stretching the neck up
ward, gradually developed its remarka-
BILE length, and SO the creature may be
said to have created itself, or it was
moulded into its peculiar
shape by the inherent forces of matter,
operating under the pressure of I'M
known time. In. the same way the
origin of the different types of man,
md the development of their physical
and mental pecularities rest upon nat
ural processes tor accidental circum-
stances, outside of any direct or origi-
nal fiat Of creator. Thus, if our
had as much logic as the
nfdel philosopher Oxen, they would
be forced to say with him: "Man is
developed, not created" Lucian sar-
says that ''The Athenians be-
ieve that mankind sprung up like rad
shes in Attica." But our congression-
Il philosophy and political theology
are not whit better, nor less appall-
ngly infdel, than the anthropology of
he Athenian heathen. Negroes, In
lians, Cinnamon, etc., ETC., were not
created, but they were developed ; they |
grew up like radishes. More accident
Il than radishes, indeed, because the
-adlsh can only spring from its own
seed, and not from the seed of tur-
nip or an onion But our infidel poll |
.ics and theology teach that the negro |
nav grow up out of a white man, the
indian out of Mongolian, and a doz-
N different species out of common
seed. - = - .i'l. .yt'.ia- s.e. fa |
Monstrous delusion ! Impudent and
disgusting infdelity And this absur-
lity is born of a mischievous deter
nination to make the negro an equal
partner in the government OF our
To accomplish this, even
heology is dragged through the nasty
lums of an atheistic philosophy, which
lismisses the Creator from the whole
ield of life, and abandons all to the
port of Pantheistic physical agency.
TO make the negro constituent part
# our government. the political preach
r consents to put on the robes of
3elial, and minister from the tripod
# Pantheism, instead of preaching
rom the affairs of the living God
Jhrist is crucified afresh by the united
lands of atheistic politics and secular
heology. The barbarism of Mount
Atlas is flung like black pail over
he beautiful humanity of Mount Cal
'ary. Those whom God hath joined
ogether by the ties of common civ
lied brotherhood, or species, are put
sunder for an uncivilized and uncivil-
liable race. This is the most fatal mis-
axe any people can make. The idea
f uniting civilized states,-an ele-
nent of natural uncivilization,-is a
elusion surprising all others in mis-
hief. An eminent English scholar
ecently read am essay on civilization
'efore leading scientific society of
london, in which he said: ''Nlan can
My be treated wisely and well, by re-
arding him just as he is. If you will
york with him, trade with him, or
overn him, you MUST treat him as he
J, and not as you are, or as yc,swould
Ike him to he LEGISLATION nilist re-