New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-03

Communicated
DR.. Palmer on the infusion Of Tongues
and the Separation of Races.

lCOmmunicatedj
DR.. Palmer on the C infusion Of Tongues
and the Separation of Races.
| New ORLEANS, October 9, 1875.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
| The letter of the Rev. DR.. Palmer, ad-
dressed to the organizers of the mass meet
ing of Wednesday last, ia go novel and
ingenious that must confess my inability
to reconcile his profession, which of all
others is held up to the world as the most
noble and virtuous, with the character dis
played in this most remarkable documen mt.
In the first place he processes to be a
Christian, and no one, however unbelieviDg
he may be in the Christian religion as ex.
pounded by the learned divine, will for one
moment deny that the morals taught by it's
great founder, the "humble Nazarine," are
| anything but the most wholesome and pure
But who is SO ignorant and blind as to
what constitutes the very essence Of Chris
tianity as to suppose or imagine that the
learned doctor, in attempting to foster
prejudice so narrow minded and unchari-
table as that evidenced in his letter, merits
either the title he bears or the consideration
he seeks.
This would be moralist near the close of
his letter, makes use of the following Ian
gusge
The iutermixture of the races is too
large subject to be discussed IN a note
like this. The human family, having a
single origin, has certainly been broken
into few grand divisions, which are sep
arated by very obvious characteristics.
This distinction runs back of all historic
records. Most probably it was accomplish
ed when the unity of human speech was
destrOyed-as part OF the same divine
policy TO prevent these huge combinations
of wickedness which brought upon the
world the deluge. Within these great zones
the different varieties may intermngle
without injury. The attempt to ANAL
gamate these separate races is, therefore
public crime, and exactly the crime which
God go signally rebuked at the Tower of
| Babel. Fortunately this instinct OF race,
both with the black man and with the
white, is too strong for all the agitatiuns
| and the schemes designed to fuse them to
gether.
AS the learned doctor has not given the
| language of the Bible in reference to the
| confusion of tongues ut the tower of Babel
| quote from Genesis XII, verses ), 6 and 4,
| reading as follows: ''Aud the Lord came
down to see the city and the tower, which
the children bulded. And the Lord said,
Behold, the people is one, aud they have all
one language; and this they begin to do;
and now nothing will be restrained from
them, which they have imagined to do. Go
to, let us go down, and there confound their
| language, that they may not understand
one anOtber's speech" Now, how the doc
tor can find anything in the above account
to warrant his assertion; that the attempt
to amalganate the races is crime exactly
such as that punished at the Tower
of Babel, is simply absurd and ri,
| diculous. The above account re-
ters simply to confusion of speech, and no
mention is made whatever of amalgamation
| of races. nor is the superiority or inferiority
of any of the human family, directly or in
directly, brought into question.
If Dr. Palmer and his confreres of the
| Lafayette sqnare meeting were the builders
of this famous Tower OF Babel, it would not
| be necessary, in my opinion. to confounI
their language; but suddenly thrust among
them about three hundred or more negro
| laborers, and the division and confusion
would be complete. l.. 5. r.