Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-12-24
THE TIM, AVID TIE BIBLE.

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or from the BEGINNING, and to bolster
up an absurd EDITORIAL article in which
it endeavoredto to maintain that MAN in |
the Scriptures meant white man al
though the Scriptures do not say so
again appeals in it's issue of the 18th
inst, to the BOX of books.
II ignores Guests 2:7:
And thesLord God formed man OF
the dust Of tn, ground"
Now, whether this was white, red or
black dust, the Bible does not say. 1t
does state however that at this time
there was but me man. aud he neces-
sarily became ihe fore-father OF US all.
1t then cites rom the ninth chapter
of jon, tellingof the three sons OF Noah
HAM, SHEM and JAPHRTH and the curse
put upon he first named. The TINES
says:
"A distinguished commentator says
ia tnis connection that almost every
Prediction in the Scriptures relative TO
che Egyptians, Canaanites, Tyrians ana
SidonIsns is comprehended In this re-
peated curse of Canaan. That almost
every prediction relative to the Assy-
rians, Chgldeans, Persians ana Arabs,
is included in the blessing OF Shem.
That almst every prediction relative 70
the Greeks, Rom ans, q oths, Tartsrs and
Turks, and especially what relates to
the Gospel am ng the Gentiles,
is contained in the blessing OF ia
pheth."
And it says further:
"Going into detail he reminds US that
the descendants of Ham, by his sons
Cush. Mizreim, Phut. and Canaan, peo-
pied Africa and part of Western Asia
For about four thousand years past the
bulk OF the Africans have been aban-
doned to the most gross ignorance, rig
I'd slavery. stupid idolRtrv and savage
Darbarity. Scarcely ever has state
formed Of them made any respectable
figure, except it be 10 the case Of
. the Egyptians andiOsrthsgenians. For
many ages the northern part OF Africa
| was enslsved or harassed by the Ass l.
rians, Chaldesn and Persian descend
! ants of Shem; then by The Greeks and
finally by the Roman and Ysndal de-
| scendants OF Japheth. ITO say nothing
enslaved by the Saracens, descended
| from Shem, or by the Turks, descend
ed from Japheth, multitude OF the
| Western Africans were formerly
bought for slaves by the English, the
/ Spanierds, the French, the Portuguese
spd Dutch and condemned TO drudgery
in America"
This ans vers our purposes very wei
indeed. and demonstrates that our con
temporary, in his blind zeal, proves
too much"
We would remind the public tina
these white races were not Anglo
ISaxons, and that a portion OF thes
"white" races were for ages slaves Il
the very Egyptians, whom this edito
sccredits 10 the black race.
II See Elk odus 13 81:
"Ard Moses said unto the people
Remember this day, in which ye cam
cut from Egypt, out of the house O
bondage" ka
The Britains.of England were sub
in gated b. the Angles aud the Saxons
aud they in their turn were mads vir
| tual slaves to the Romans.
What then becomes OF the foolish ed
Itorial which The TN - says norther
journals have so uamercifully crit
lcized.
L 1t was as follows:
"When man was created the Ler
, God gave him the earth with the com
mard that he subdue it and have do
minion over all things, and man hs
Iooeyed that injunction. He subiue
the earth and made it yield her in
IcTease. He subdued the beast OF tn
aid and made them sefvs him. b
subiued the minerals OF the earth an
a worked them into i'm elements and M
\ lchinery that tighten his labors. II
!, subdued steam and electricity an
made them accomplish such wonder
as have startled man himself. In yer
truth he has dominion over all things
"But when we say man we mean I'll
= white man. ALI these great accomplish
ments have been made by him. TIL
= Negro has subdued nothing, but hi
: been subdued himself from the begiI
. ming until this day bT the white mai
= He was not even able TO hold his ow
q !coniiaent, which was seemingly SO
= apart for him, but the white man wei
in and occupied IL, using the black ma
= as his slave, and it is only by the vo
:, untary act of the whites that the Ne
. gro to-day is q free man.
In view of these things it is not POI
sible that the white man will perm
the Negro to rule over him. Nor wi
the white man permit the Negro to
5 forever disturbing factor in his go
n eminent"
. The Times has made itself ridiculo
because in admitting that the Africa
Q the Egyptians are the descendants
70 HAM, it comedies without qoesti,
that we are brothers,-that we we
= born equal, truism which THoM
If JEFFERsoN recognized in the Deciar
ton of Ind spendence.
- Even the school children are bett
? posted on history than this Negro-hs
"a ing ed itor.
We will not cite from this works
1 ethnology or science of the sever
IA races, but will take Swinton's Quill