Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-11-15

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For the Sentinel.
BETHESDA, P. o., Oct. 8, 1872.
Mr.. Editor, As the columns Of the Sentinel
do not appear TO have been particularly over
burdened with any great amount of very in
teresling reader matter of late, propose, with
your consent, TO call the attention of your
more intellectual readers, the agricultural
portion Of them especially, to a few rambling
observations on subject in which every white
man, woman and child in the land should feel
deeply concerned. In doing So | would not
wish TO be considered as actuated by any spirit
of controversy, either political or religious -
albeit, Paul said that without controversy,
great is the mystery of goodness" (Great
enough, God knows; But that gentleman,
be 1t remembered, was then addressing him
self to Timothy, and did not live in these
times Tor probably he would not have said
that) nor was his remark intended for, nor is
it at all applicable to the present era.
Be that as it may, the fact that the moral
and political atmosphere around US, is, al
ready, so overcharged with the foul and pu-
trd stencil of controversy and its consequences
il enough OF itself 10 deter me from entering
into any such field; at present, even IL tho't
myself competent. But rather, would | set
men TO thinking for themselves, on q subject,
the want of proper understanding of which
10 allowing to be rivetted still closer and closer
on the public mind, the letters OF an ignorant,
though interestea, fanaticism, which has not
only been the chief cause of all our late and
present political woes, but which, if persisted
in, will hasten TO maturity all the untold mis-
cries which feem TO lie In store for this once
proud and happy nation-I allude 10 the mo-
dern doctrine Of "socal and political equality
among all men, without regard to race or
color - and which (if we are to judge Of their
open declarations, now of record) the two
great rival political parties Of the country,
now contending for its control, seem bent on
enforcing by all the means in their power
and thus, incorporating it, go indissolubly Il
fear) into our political system, as to render all
future attempts to eradicate it, Of no avail and
useless--a doctrine which, once obtained, will
carry with il as an ineUiia5ic consequence, the
miscegenation or commingling Of the blood OF
the two races (created) so dissimiar and dis
tinct--not only in their mental and moral ca
pacities, as well as physical organisms, but
even in their very chemical competition also,
that all nature stands aghast at the mere cons
temptation of 80 damnable an outrage, and
over the fruits of which, if allowed to ripen,
the very angels of Heaven will weep. Can
national demcntcduess go further2
But, to continue,-and the better, perhaps,
to elucidate the subject of which I am now
treating--I may here relate an incident which,
though seemingly trivial in itself, may not be
altogether foreign TO the subject or uninter-
estng Happening in Rockville some months
ago, saw passing through the streets of that
village, n drove of what were called Texas
cattle. Their long and magniicently expand
ed horns, at once, attracted my attention. and
set me to thinking on subject which (altho'
ii has often engrossed my thoughts, and upon
which have formed conclusions perfectly sat-
isfactcry to my own mind has never, perhaps,
been considered of sufficient importance to en-
gage much of the publig's attention: ! mean
"the plurality ofthe different species Of sai-
NAL life'' How, thought l. did that variety
of cattle originated This is deep question,
Mr.. Editor, and would advise all who would
not make originul asses Of themselves, not to
attempt its solution, unless they are sure they
know something about it. And although. az
said before, have formed conclusions on the
subject, perfectly satisfactory to nyself-and
which may be considered by some, (poor
brainless fools) as rather deisical, yet, | chal-
lenge all the learned preachers and politicians
in the county, or cross between both, tnot a
very reliable cross, by the by, on either side, SO
one single inch of the ground that propose to
occupy, tina. is either gratuitously assumed or
untenabe. ] know, very WELL Mr. Editor.
that the received opinion amongst most men,
founded, q have not the least Doubt on n
mistaken or rather forced Interpretation of GER
them conform, more readily, to the prevalent
idea o # the "unity of the human race"-(as
the most critical comparisons of the modern
translalions-our version-of that Good
| Book with the old original Mosaic manu-
scripts, abundantly testify us, thst every
species of animal life, together with their sew
| eral varities, all sprang from he same common
pareniage or stock or in other words, that
the different species and varieties of men, cat
tie, sheep, hogs, &c, each of its kind all de-
scended from one and the same original pair
or family emanating from Noah's ark and
that the difference in variety was occasioned,
solely, by crossing. This hypothesis, how
ever, is at once exploded and its futility expo
sed by asking the simple question On what
other stock, il not original, was this crossing
| done? A cross, we all know is the product
of two distinct species or breeds, and, so long
as the law of nature-that like produces like
holds good can never result from bresdin9
in and in, as it is called, from the same stock.
The above theory, therefore, falls stilIborn to
the ground.
Now, if II be true-aud the unerring devel-
opments of scientific sustomy-(l ayiug aside
the many other proofs, equally as strong to an
unprecedented mind, clearly demonstrate the
fact that there at least six distinct aud entire
ly different species of men, viz The Cauca-
sian the Monaghan, the Malay, the Indian,
The Esquilpaux, and the Negro and, as the
logic OF facts" abundantly show--wcre all
created at different periods, as the temperature
of the earth rendered its several portions habi-