The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-03-05
Which is the Superior Race NO. 2.
BY REV. J. f. BECkwITH.

BY REV. j. Z. BECkW1TH.
| And not satisfied with this, Nimred went
out and Builded Nineveh and other great
cities, laying the foundation of the king
dom Of Assyria, or, as it reads in the text,
Asher, il decendent of Ham, went out and
buidcd these cities, and set up a kingdom
which he named frem himself Assyra.-
i Hence, we have here the fact that the de-
cendents of Ham laid the foundation of the
two most famous Kingdoms in ancient his
tory, Assyria and Babylon. 1t may be
proper, however, in this connection, to re-
| fer to the erroneous view commonly held in
regard to AsSyria.
In the last part of the chapter it appears
that Shom had a son Assur, and this shows,
in common with many other scriptures,
that certain names were iven to the chill
drcn of different families. But some, called
learned men, biased perhaps by the idea of
the inferiority of Ham, have held that be-
cause there was an Asher in Shem's family,
therefore the Asher that laid the founda-
ton of the Assyrian Empire was this son
of Shcm. But this reasoning is fallacious.
those of the other sons of Adam; and the
reasoning which has controlled the learned
ii regard to the foundation Of Assyria car
rid ont, would show that Enoch, who
walked with Gnd, was a decendent of Cain.
| The Scriptures are positive upon the ques-
ton. The narrative contains no break
from the beginning to the end, when, verse
20, it says, referring to what had just been
narrated, including the history of the build
| ing Of Nineveh and Babylon, "IHese are
| the sons Of Ham, after their families, after
| their tongues, in tier nations and in their
Countries This admits Of no dispute
The best Hebrew scholars, among whom is
Gesenus, consider the marginal reading the
true one; and this declares that Nimrod
went out into ASsyria and builded. &c
And it is further said that tho celebrated
| Minus is a contraction. But equally to
this point, and perhaps more emphatic, be-
cause definite and positive, is the prophet
| Mich, who, in the sixth verse of the sixth
chapter, calls Assyria "the land of MINI
rod" This must be sufficient to show
clearly that the opinion held by the learned
is erroneous, and that Assyria was origin
ally pcopled by the sons or defendants OF
| Ham.
Phenicia, to which allusien has been
made, WIS a country lying along the east
| r A..
ed on the South by Arabia, on the East by
Assyria or Babylon, and extending north
probably to the Black sea. Its boundaries
we're not very definite. Siden WAS one OF
Canaan. Dedan, another city of the in
| terror, was probably named from Dedan,
son of Cush. The country originally i'll.
cluded Palestine or Philistia. The Greeks
and Romans called them Phenicians, but
they called themselves Guarantees, and
their land Canaan. The scripture some
times calls their land Tyrus. When the
| Hebrews invaded and took the land of Ca
naan, seeing they must inevitably fall into
the hands of their evinciblc chief, many OF
the Canaanitcs left their country, and 10y
means of their numerous ships, moved into
other countries, on the shores of the Medit-
toranean sea. And for many an age there
was Il tablet on two Phenican pillars al
Tangiers, containing this inscription
I'VE fly from the face of Joshua the rob
ber.' THUS showing the origin of the PEG
pie, and the early age at which Northern
Africa was coleliz,d. Phenicians, Canaan,
ties they fed before the face of joshua
This was the NEST progressive kingdom Of
antiquity. The Phenicians sent out theil
ships into remote seas, and long before
Julius Caesar, or even the foundation Of
Rome, gathered tin from Cornwall ant
gold from Ophir. They also sent out theil
colonies into all accessible and desirabl,
countries, occupying not only Ireland, ant
Tangiers, but Greece, italy, and all the
countries along the shores of Europe, ane
Africa, leaving monuments commemorative.
their occupation, not only in territories
lying near home, but even unto Norway.
This then, makes three ancient king
doms, occupying Il large place in history
and founding Kingdoms and government
whose influence extended a long way dow
the ages-cach of them founded and peo
pied by the defendants of Ham.
One of the most wonderful kingdoms o
antiquity was Egypt. To this day, thu
learned spend long ears in endcavering t.
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Her history unfortunately for the woll,
was destroyed in the burning Of the Alex
andrian library by Omar and Amren fanati
cal, Mahomedans, 1900 years ago. Blu
was Il powerful kingdom. before Abraham
left /" Ur of the ChalieeS." Cheops, AM
his successors built the pyramids long be
fore there was any regular government i
Greece or Rome, if not prior to the settle
ment of Italy or Morea, and her priest
were the wisest men Of all the ancients.-
1t was the land where Joseph ruled, an
Jacob, and the twelve patriarchs sojourned
and their defendants suffered. Traditio
hath it that Egypt was settled by Mizraim
the second sor of Ham. Very ancer
maps named both Ethiopia and EgyI
Mizraim presenting that he was the feuno
err, and that his defendants peepled all til;
region. Whether these ,hingsarc so or no
Egypt was founded and peoplcd by I'll
defendants of Ham. In the 105th Psall
the declaration is repeated. 'ISrael ais
came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned
the land Of Ham. He sent Moses his Sc
want and Aaron his chosen. They Shove
his signs among them, and wondrous thing
in the land Of Ham This is sufficient
Egypt makes the fourth grand histor
kingdom, founded and settled by the raj
SO many have decided was the inferior, ar
whose descendants were 20 be servants
their brethren.
4 In these four ngdoms-Assyria. Bah
lon, Phenecier, and Esypt-is containe
the germ of all the historic Kingdoms
| aDtiuuity These are the fathers of the n