The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-12-25
THE STATUS OF THE NEGR0---ARIEL's DE-
FENCE


FENCE.
The Charleston Nerrs of last Saturday contains
two letters from .Ariel," intended as partial an
swer To sore of the most promnen. replies that
have been given to his widely known pamphlet on
the negro. These letters are dated from Nashville,
Tennessee, and embrace most of the points and
arguments of "Arel" in reply. In the second let
ter, dated 18th inst, he meets the arguments of Dr.
WINKLER, and as matter of curiosity. we subjon
the substance of this letter:
Will the opponents of ..Arics" views accept the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments CON-
petent TO decide this question? If they will be
wiling, as he is to be bound by what they say, it
can easily be satisfactorily settled. And its adj
Justment Will not only settle. as fact growing out
OF Its adjustment that the negro is beast but
by EXPRESS declaration of the Divine writer, that
HE HAS no SOUL These points can be dcmonstra-
ted by the positive authority of Gods Word, and
by the logic of facts which that word eaches
Now. if the views of sArcl' are what G od teaches
how dare any man to gansay and begin 10 tell us
of the awful consequences to the negro-to the
white race, to society, as ensuing if "Arel'' is
true These gentlemen, too. forget that by in
dugng in such denuuciatory calamties, that THEY
are assuming; that THEY could have arranged this
world much better than God himself This QUASI
land believing ONLY so MUCH Of Gods Word, as in
their judgments God should have done sald or
commanded, and where anything is said that does
not harmonize with THEIR judgment or opiniou,-
must be laid aside. This is not only true Of our
pulpits but no less astonishing. Do not such men
know thai God will stamp them out of existence
for such mpiety? Has not God said, that Of every
word which uE HAS SPOKEN, not one jot or TITLE
shall fall, that ALL will be accomplished? The
pulpits and the religious writings Of the day are
now overruuing with this QUASI infdelity.
Let me ask you question on this pont-You
understand DR.. Winkler asserting that the Ethi-
opan referred 10 in his text. Acts viii, as being
n negro? Yes Do you suppose that the Doctor
did that ms an intelligent reader of the Bible or
from design of Ignorance? Look at, and read at-
tentively verses q and 2S. lie had gone to Jeru-
5aicd TO -w0NsmIP. Now, was any person But a
JEW ever allowed to worship in the Temple? See
Acts xxi % 10 80 No man BELIEVE that he
was n NEGRO except such as have a veil over their
minds, 'to believe q lie, that they may be- ***S*.
He was unquestionably Jew. Queen Candace
was likewise white. and all her subjects white Also
Had Dr. w. but looked into Latin history he would
have found that Mt this very time Nero was on the
throne, that Petronius had been appointed by him
to succeed Gallus as Governor of Egypt md Etho-
pia-that at this time the Roman army under Pc
tronus was in the actual occupation OF Tapata. The
capital then of Ethiopia, where this Queen Candace
held her court-that they were white, descendants
of Ham-and had he examined history further. he
would have found that the ETHIOPIA OF the Bible
(not the Ethiopia of mems fancy WAS settled by
the descendants Of Ham from Egypt-that ETHIOPIA
extended from Cyrenc south of Egypt, and extend
ed up the Nile to kashoum, at the junction of the
White aud Blue Nile, distance of some ] 81 miles.
That its first capital was Meroe-that its ruins Mt
this day are Of the most magnificent kind-hat an
examination of their caacombs ns well as all their
architecture, show that they are the same as those
of Egypt--ther gods and temples the samc-their
burial of their dead the same-the inscriptions on
their sarchophagi the same yphics-that on
opening of them the same cast of features with
long straight hair on them. is found on their dead
| The writer of this had lock OF hair taken from
the head Of one of their queens that was buried
two hundred and fiy-eght years before The Exc
dus of the Hebrews from Egypt, under Moses and
| Aaron.
But 10 test the Doctors Bible knowledge and
cont emporancous history:
We now DEFY him, or any one else, 10 point his
finger TO \ SINGLE INSTANCE, where any Apostle
EVER PREACHED To A NEGRO-cver baptized one
or ever established a NEGRO CHURCH on THIS EARTH
We say we DEFY him. any other man, To do this.
The Apostle Paul declares that '.he Gospel" in
his day, chad been preached throughout the whole
world,'' and he spoke truth And We now say
again that we defy the Doctor, or any other man,
to show one single NEGRO CHURCH established by
them, or single negro baptized by them, any
| more than he can show church of horses, asses.
goats or sheep, established or baptized by them :;
churches such as can be shown Of the whites
IL won't do TO dodge this question. The Apos-
ties either did or did not preach 10 negroes II
they preached to ihem where were their churches:
Then that second sprout of in!idety among the
learned (?) clergy, which they lay to the Apostle
Paul, saying in Athens (scc Acts xviii. 26l. THAT
of one blood God hath made ull the nations OF men
for 10 dwell on all the face of the earth This.
they say, necessarily includes the whole negro
race.
Well, we now utter another defiance to those
learned gentlemen. We defy them to put their
finger on ONE SINGLE passage in the Riblc, from
The first letter 20 the last one in IT,, where the ne
| gro is called NATION any more than horses, asses,
| cattle, sheep or goats. are called NATION or MA
rloxs Let them Try 1t. Christ told his disciples
to preach the Gospel to every nation, and they say
they did bat how Is it they never baptized ne.
gro or established n negro church? These learn.
ell (?l men would make the Savlours orders. and
the veracity- of his Apostles, of little account
alas for our poor fallen natures. We are great,
very great in our vain i,naginations. We want to
show God that we make good Christians of
Beasts, although can hardly make q true and
| honest of ourselves.
Again, it can be shown from the Bible that it is
as impossible lreverently speaking) for God to
make u BLACK MAN, and en,ow him with q SOUL,
MS for him TO create FIRE WITHOUT HEAT
want all to be said against 'Arel'' that can
be, justly or unjusiy said, before reply We
are preparing our noes for another work, in
which all these matters will he properly attended
to- Most of what has been said against Ariel
is denunciatory, not worthy of man.
THE AMENDAToRY RECONSTRUCTION BILL.
The following embraces the text of the bill it
passed the House on Wednesday last. after q spicy