The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-03-12

or Turks, had their origin in the same fam
lily; for 1shmael's mother and wife were
Egyptians, consequently descendants of
Ham. In all these facts, therefore, do wa
find moro evidence than sufficient to prove.
that, SO far as the families can be traced,
the descendants of Ham, instead of being
inferior, were the superior race.
But physical inferiority is net all that is
charged against this family. 1t is coutended
that Shcm and Japheth were intellectually
designed to be, and were SO much superior,
that it is useless to give the descendants of
Ham any chance for equality, even any
rights that others are bound to respect
But who have been the teachers and educa-
tors of the world? 1t is claimed that the
Arabians were the inventors of figures
and the Phsnicians the inventors of letters,
but it is highly probable that the Pheni-
clans learned the use of letters from the
Hebrews who, i'll turn, learned them of
the Egyptians. In either case the very
germ of all learning came from Ham
through the Arahians, Phcnicans and
Egyptians.
Egypt was the wisost nation of antiquity,
so that the inspired historian, speaking of
the wisdom of Solomon, which was super
natural, said, as the highest commentator,
that it "excslled even the wisdom of the
Egyptians.
| To Egypt, those who would finish their
education, or obtain little more wisdom
than they could in their own country, came
and the priests inductsd those who were
worthy into their schools, or as they called
them, mysteries 1t was in this way
that Egyptian priests taught Scion, GOO
years before Christ, that there was great
Island called Atlantis cut in the Atlantic
Ocean, west from the Azors. from which
the idea of America was supposed to have
been derived, and from which the Ocean
actually received its name. They were the
teachers of the learned world There are
some who deny that Cecrops colenized
Athens with his Egyptians. and that Cad
mus colonized Thrace with Phenicians, but
they admit that both these celebrated char
acters came to the countries named as
teachers and civiizers, and that the coun-
tries received from them the rudiments of
education and civilization.
So far as this argument is concerned.
this concession clearly establishes the posi-
ton which they deny, the descendants of
Ham were the educators. if not the actual
possessers of the soil. They originated
that language, and that learning, which to
this day, the learned call "classic'' and
which forms large part Of collegiate edu-
cation in the nineteenth century.
In government, also, this race took the
lead of all ether The Assyrian Babylo- ,
MAN and Egyptian monarchies were SPLEEN |
did examples of national oreanization.-l
And the Grecian and Roman menarchics
were the best then known Moses was ed |
ucated by the daughter of the King, skilled !
in all the wisdom Of the Egyptians, and |
then sent by the hand of God as of all |
men best fitted to lead and govern his |
"chosen people," and yet, before he was |
fully qualified to govern, he had to be in
strncted by Jethro his ia hcr-in-law and an |
Ethiopian or descendant of Cush And so |
the model government of the Jews origi- !
mated aside from inspiration in the supe- !
rier wisdom Of the children Of Ham. The
"Chaldees were the wise men of the
East and instructors of nations So, |
too, the architecture of Egypt was early
less equalled by Babylon and Phenicia-
Solomon, when about to build a temple
unto the Lord consulted with Hiram, King
of Tyre, OF Phenicia, and obtained from
him, not only the plans, but cunning work
men to direct or to assist in the progress
of the work. And the combination of
Egyptian and Phenician architecture cul-
minated in the various Grecian and Roman
orders which stand at the head of the sci
ence until this day.
But perhaps the most positive and eRdur-
ing monument of the intellectual superior
ity Of this race is found in the Indo Ger
manic, or, as it is falsely called, the Semitic
language, which really underlies and fur
nishes the basis of the learned language of
the world.
By strange misrepresentation, the learn
ed have rersistently ascrbed to Shem the
origin of the entire kingdom of the Chal-
deans, whereas it is, as we have seen, most
clearly traceable to Ham. This error has
led to the other, viz: that the language,
which all admit originated in the land of
Shinar, or in Chaldea. should be called
Scientific or Semitic. But the family of
Shem spread itself toward the east, accord
ing to the sacred historian, and as we have
noticed, Noah was the traditionary king of
China. If, therefore, the language alluded
to sprung from Shem, it should be the
foundation Of the Tartar and Chinese lar
suages of to-day.