The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-12-25
chronological Status of the Negro.

We make the following extract from the
eloquentEdiscourse delivered by. the Rev.
Z E. aV1NKLER, D. D., on the 9Th
inst, iinssahe. Citadel Square Baptist
Church Of Charleston, in reply to
ssAriel. Tile argument of Dr. WlSkIER
IS. a masterly refutation of the soplistries
aasanced by Ariel and we regret that
limited spacezprevents its republication in
ehese colun,ns;entire. And whilst-we omit
the conclusive Biblical and. historical de.
ductions Of the reverend speaker, We must
make room for. the concluding paragraphs
:ofthis lectare, establishing that; theSnegro
is possessed Of an immortal soul, and that
it, is our solemn duty to continue friendly
and kind to the ycolored man, and to aid
and urge him 70 seekhis eternal salvation
through:the atonement of our blessed Re;
.deener We quoteas follows:
Butsw where shall ne end our criticisms
What shall we,say to one who assigns to
the clergy. and the. learned opinions that
nc. .mortalever entertained, andspends his
rhetoric5in 1declaining against those opin.
ions9 What shall we say to one who
creates "a new history, a new geography,
new 1ethnology; whcsevenassertsi impos-
sibilities? What shall we say to one who
claims that the serpent symbol Of Edenis
a negro. and that this negro has no soul,
and therefore no sense ofsright and wrong,
and no access to q heavenly guide and
helper; aud yet that he is madea federal
head Supolsw hose well DRILL doing depends
the life or death Of the whole inferior Gre
atien?. What shall we says-to one, who,
by a stroke of the pen, transports all Lelr
from the Arabian Desert into the land of
Canaan and the children of Heth from
theirsmetropolis at Hebron (Gen. "a: Z.
10Y to. the remote coasts of Ph9nlcla.
What .shalfzwe say to one who makes en-
balming ssby7swlichs the piety OF kindred
soughtstu arrest the progress of decay, a
divine Institution andscElims a, white skin
for the. dlarkebrowns mummy, whose native
red has been deepened almost stihto black,
by the resins and spices. Tat preserve the
body ofsthe dead What shall we say to
y3neswho makes the piety of. the Father OF
Believers aSlneres keeping of Adams race
pdre:-isistins that this seed, however
corrupted cij otherwise is t"'the seed of God. .
What:s6all WeTsay to one who takes the
law, forhidding to any, deformed or mains
cd descendant of Aaron to officiatc as
priest35Hst as nofmsimed or dcforincd VIC
tin was sto be offered in sacrifce} and
makes itsa:prohibitio to any. flat nosed
s,erson or race to worship Coda fatal,
dreadful prohibition, for it would exclude
as ,inanviine-A Asia as IN Africa from the
conrtss of the earthly and 2the heavenly
temple--the Siamese, the Burman, the
Chinese, tile Thibetan, the Tartar and all
hezunkmown.tr tribes beyond until we reach
the Frozen Sea. Never then would the
niomgrel race, the densest population OF
the world, receive tie Gospel. Never
then could the. premise to Zion be fulfilled
that, through her inStrumentalty the man
OF Ethiopia Should be born again-a new
creature in Jesus Christ. Never then
could the grand vision of prophecy be re-
allied. wherein the Gospel irradiates a
'darkened continent and Ethiopia awakins
from the,>sieeps of thousand years,
stretches forth her dusky hands unto God.
No! the argument OF Ariel is As untrue
as it is niischievous. The negro share with
the members OF every other race the priv
ileges and responsibilities of aman. 1.-The
does not b,ii.d for eternity, neither didthe
Saracen before he came ont of the desert,
nor does the wandering Tartar or the Red
Nan of to-day. If a barbarian in his naI
tive land, he is a highertypc of man than
the white Pesheray of Patagonia, the
black. native OF Tasmania, the yellow
= Bushman of the Cape. If he is crowned
with crisp hair, it is true hair, as the mi
croscepe shows, being uniform cylinder,
without the rotches that characterize
wool. He has the human stature and the
human eye, e:1 1bracing earth and heaven
in its range. lie has the human hand,
which no brute has for we cannot apply
the name to the paw of the Chlmpanzee,
with It's stump, instead OF thumb. DE
has the hand, that Instrument incident TO
and productive of all other instruments,
as Aristotle says, the hand tint can mutI
ply its power by the wheel, the axle, the
lever and the screv-, and that can subject
to its use the strength and swiftncss OF
the brute creation He has the human
brain, differing from that of the ape, as as
.Soemmering attests, by not less than tif
teen important anatomical differences. lie
has the human consciousness; the human
will, controlled not by instinct but by
;. reason; the, human power of living in the
past and the future, the faculty of memory
and. the sentiment of hope he has the so
cial affections and sense of duty that
can be cultivated; he can be taught reli-
eion, he can be Christanized, he can live
for God. And as sensible sign of his hu
manity God has given him the great en-
.dowment of the Word, the faculty OF
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