NEGROES BEFORE ADAM!

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1861

NEGROES BEFORE ADAM!

THE following is just about such a discovery as we should think some southern mind at this time would be likely to make, and such as southern people would be prepared to receive. The wonderful revelation concerning immortal souls might also be considered of value in other States besides the South. We give it as a curiosity:

A NEGRO THE AUTHOR OF ADAM'S FALL.—The last number of De Bow's (Southern) Review contains an article from the pen of Rev. Dr. Cartwright, of New Orleans, in which that writer announces a strange discovery in scriptural readings. He finds that the 24th verse of the first chapter of Genesis has been mistranslated, and should read, "The Lord said, Let the earth bring forth intelligent creatures with immortal souls after their kind, cattle," &c. Taking this as a basis, the Doctor, in a way satisfactory to himself, finds that this race existed before Adam, that they were negroes, that the tempter himself was a negro in Eden, and not by any means a serpent, but only called so on account of the low cunning peculiar to the race. Thus, he argues, the negro being the child of the earth, is a lower order of being than the paler faced of the human family.—Ch. Sec.