all the hues and shades of complexion, which mark the human race? If so, is it not exceedingly mysterious that there is not now, nor ever has been, the occurrence of a variety so marked and distinctive, as is black, white, and red, proceeding from the same parents naturally? Surely, if nature, in the beginning, or in the first ages, produced from the same. origin different races of men, as to their complexions and physical constitutions, she ought to produce the same, in these later ages, in order to be consistent with herself in this particular, as she is known to be in all others. These are questions the first to arise, whenever this subject is referred to, by the inquisitive and lovers of knowledge.

But as we pass in the prosecution of the work, we hope to answer the above queries, and show the reader the true origin of the negro race, as well as that of the others, the white and red, there having been, in reality, but these three on the earth, as the yellow and the brown, with all the other shades, are but derived from an amalgamation of the three others, which were prior and radical, as we shall show in due order.

On this subject, nature, or rather God in nature, has instructed us, that without the intervention of Divine power, there could, and never would have been, but one general complexion of the people of the globe, and that one complexion would have been like the first parents, whatever that complexion was.

If the first two of human kind were created white, they could never have been the parents of black and red men. If they were created red, they could never have been the parents of black and white men. If they were created black, they could never have been the parents of white and red men, as they could naturally procreate only their own complexion.

Since the creation of man upon the earth, there never was produced from the same parents a variety of complexion,

(except in the case of the Albino's production, which is now considered to be only the effect of disease); this particular, the producing of varieties, is a trait of the nature of beasts, but not of man, who, in this particular, are more fixed, being created in a way which has set him above the winds and the weather, as it relates to his physical being.

Here it is proper to inquire what then was the complexion of the two first of the human race, Adam and Eve, and the antediluvian world, their offspring?

In relation to this extremely curious, as well as interesting subject, we shall refer first to a very ancient, and a very learned historian, namely, FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, who says, in his work on the Antiquities of the Jews, Book i. p. 12, that Adam, the first man, was created red. The following are his words:-"God took dust from the ground and formed man, and inserted in him a spirit and a soul. This man was called ADAM, which, in the Hebrew tongue, signifies one that is red, because he was formed of red earth compounded together, for of that kind is virgin or true earth.”

The kind of earth which Josephus calls virgin, or pure earth, was, no doubt, of a very peculiar character and appearance, or he would not have called it pure or virgin earth, in distinction from all the other earths of the globe, of which, it is said, that there are nine. How this man came by a knowledge of this circumstance, we cannot tell, except he derived it from the term Adam, or from a tradition of the patriarchs arising out of that circumstance, his creation from red earth, and handed down from the house of Noah.

For this very reason, doubtless, it was written by Moses, Gen. v. 2, that God called the two parents of the human race by but one name, which was that of ADAM, in which name was comprehended, as well their natures as their complexion. God did not give the first woman the name of EVE; it was Adam who did this, when he saw that she was to be

come the mother of all the human race. ADAM was the name which God gave to the woman as well as to the man at first, as shown above from the text of Moses.

THIS circumstance should not be allowed to pass till it shall have made its due impression upon the mind of the reader, which is as follows-" Male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."

In accordance with this statement of Josephus, in rendering a reason why God called the two first human beings by but one name, and that name being Adam, or the red man and woman, we find that the Hebrew language establishes that the words Adam, Adamah, Adami, and Admah, have all a similar meaning.

First, ADAM, as above, signifies earthy man, red; second, ADAMAH, signifies red earth, or blood; third, ADAMI, signifies my man red, earthy, human; fourth, ADMAH, signifies earthy red, or bloody, all of which words are of the same class, and spring from the same root, which was Adam, signifying red, or copper color.

From a view of this fact, it is difficult to account for the reason of the name of the first man and woman unless they were created red, instead of white or black, as it is well known that the Hebrew language is governed in its power of naming visible existences, as of animals, fowls, fishes, &c., by their appearances or natures, and frequently by both, as in the case of the name Adam, which not only represented the hue of his skin, but that also of his intellectual existence or human nature.

Thus this Jewish historian, as well as the genius of the Hebrew language, furnishes us with a clue, like the golden thread in the labyrinth of the subterranean palace of ancient Thebes, leading to the right conclusion on this subject, namely, that Adam, with all the antediluvian race, were red or a copper colored people.

But on this subject there is other testimony corroborative

of the above, though but incidentally afforded, and yet is of the highest possible authority. This evidence is found in the writings of Moses, in the book of Genesis, chapters fice and eleven. In this book is written, by a competent hand, a brief, yet perfect history of the cosmogony of the earth, as well as a narrative of the births and deaths of the patriarchs, from the beginning to the time in which he lived, a lapse of years, consisting of 2,553, and about 1,481 years before the birth of Josephus, who was a mere lad at the time of Christ's crucifixion.

This incidental evidence, in relation to the belief that Adam was created red, is afforded by Moses, in tracing the genealogical descent of one of the sons of Adam, namely, that of SETH, from his father down to the patriarch Jacob, who was the immediate progenitor of the twelve tribes of the house of Israel.

Now, as the Jews are red, or a dark copper colored race, in their pure and unamalgamated condition, aids in proving that Adam was also of the same complexion, because SETH, an immediate son of Adam and Eve, was the direct progenitor of the Hebrew, or Jewish people, commonly called the lineage of the holy seed. See Genesis, as above alluded to, 5 and 11; also chapters 21, 25, and 35, where the true genealogy of that race is traced out, coming down from Adam to Noah, then from Noah to Abraham, and from thence to Jacob, the head of the twelve tribes of the Jews.

To please the curious, we will give an extract from those chapters of the Book of Gen. v, xi, xxi, xxv, xxxv, respecting this genealogy, which is as follows:

SETH, the son of Adam, was the father of ENOS, who was the father of CAINAN, who was the father of MAHALALEEL, who was the father of JARED, who was the father of ENOCH, who was the father of METHUSELAH, who was the father of LAMECH, who was the father of NOAH, who was the father of SHEM, who was the father of ARPHAXED, who was the

father of SALAH, who was the father of EBER, who was the father of PELEG, who was the father of REU, who was the father of SERUG, who was the father of NAHOR, who was the father of TERAH, who was the father of ABRAHAM, who was the father of ISAAC, who was the father of JACOB, who was the father of the twelve tribes of ISRAEL. Thus the genealogy of the descent of the Jews is made out, and as it is well known that the Jews in their pure and unamalgamated state is red or copper colored, we prove, by this fact, in connection with the foregoing evidence, that the antediluvians, with the father of the human race, were red men and women.

But if it is necessary to add any other circumstance, corroborative of the above conclusion, we may mention that the Arabs, or Ishmaelites, are red or copper colored, as well as the Jews, and are alike the descendants of Abraham, who was of the race of Shem, as above shown, one of the sons of Noah.

In the existence of the Arabs, we have a tangible and an abiding evidence that the Jews were a people who were copper colored, as the Arabs are brethren of the Jews, and have never mixed their blood with that of other people as much as the Jews have. The reason why they have not, is the peculiar location of their country, it being situated along the eastern coast of the Red Sea in Asia Minor, and is an almost unapproachable desert of sand, in the very heart of Arabia, where, from the remotest ages, they have subsisted in wandering hordes, living, many of their tribes, wholly by rapine and plunder, amalgamating but little with other nations, who have been deterred from conquering the country by the horrid desert and storms of flying sand, so that they have remained a distinct aboriginal people from the age of Abraham and Ishmael, the son of Abraham, in the very face of all the surrounding countries, the same in every age.