Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-28
THE NEGRO.
HIS chronological fafus-RepIy Of Rev.
DR. Young to Ariel.

with mastery skill, and exhibited 8
vast amount of classical learning on the
question. The following are main points
made by the speaker:
"ArieP teaches that the negro is beast
that he is older than Adam, and was the
identical creature that tempted our first
parents in the garden of Eden. See pages
As and 46. The most intelligent support
ers of the "ArieP theory all agree that if
we make it appear the negro was not in the
garden of Eden, the book is answered. We
think so too. For if he was not there, then
he was not one of the "men" who called
"upon the name of the Lord" Gen. iv.
20. He was not the "man" whose creation
"grieved the Lord at his heart" Gen. vi.
5, 6. If the negro was not in the garden
the seducer of Eve-then it was not asso-
citation with his daughters that brought
down the food, that confused and dispersed
the builders of the Tower of Babel, that
brought down fire and birthstone upon the
| Cities of the Plain, and caused the Lord to
exterminate the Canaanites, ETC., etc. If
the animal was not in the garden, az COM
tended for by "Ariel," then he was not in
existence either TO enter the ark or come
out of it. "Only argue the negro ont of
Paradise say they, "and the book is bound
| to go down" Amen say we.
The last sentence of "The Negro" is
| this "The Bible is true" Let us take
up one. Gen. iii. L. "Now the serpent
was more subtitle than any beast of the
field which the Lord God had made" The
Hebrew word translated "serpent is
Nachash. ariel says he was negro
Mum. xxi. 6 "And the Lord sent fiery
serpents among the people and they bit the
people; and much people of Israel died.
The Hebrew word rendered "serpents" is
Nachash in the plural Were they ne
groes? Mum. xxi. g: "And Moses made
a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole;
and it came to pass that if serpent had
bitten any man, when he beheId the SER
pent of brass, he lived" The Hebrew is
Nachash again-was the brazen serpent a
negro? Job XVI 49, "By his spirit he
hath garnished the heavens his hand
hath formed the crooked serpent" The
original is Nachash. Is the I" crooked ser
x. IL: "Surely the serpent will bite with
Nachash. Do you suppose he is black
skinned negro" Isa. xvii. l: u that
day the Lord with his sore and great and
strong sword shall punish leviathan the
piercing serpent" The "leviathan or
"serpent" here is translation of Nachash. |
Is leviathan a negro? lisa. lxv. %: In |
allusion to Gen. iii. IA, the prophet says,
:" Dust shall be the serpent's meat"
Nachash again. Surely "AriePs" thick |
Tipped negro" does not feed on dust. |
Amos tx. 3: "And though they be hid |
from my sight ia the bottom of the sea,
thence will command the serpent, and be |
shall bite them" Nachaoh is the original. |
Does his lat-nosed negro" live ain the |
bottom of the sea ?"
We will now lay down the Hebrew scrip
lures and take up the celebrated Septuagint
This is the most ancient translation of the
sacred books of the Jews into Greek. 1t
was made by order of Ptolemy Philadel-
plus King Of Egypt, for the Aexandrian
library, about 285 years before Christ. DR.
Clark says: "The Septuagint translation,
Of all the versions of the Sacred Writing,
has ever been deemed of the greatest i'm
portance by competent judges" Surely
the learned Jews, selected for the perform
ance Of this special work, understood their
own language, and the language Of their
royal patron. They rendered the Hebrew
word Nachash (serpent) hy The Greek
work opkjs, from the beginning of the Sep
tuagint to its close. This Greek word
ophis means a serpent, and nothing else.
If the Nachash was negro these veneer
able scholars would have known it.
We now appeal to Latin Scriptures.
The Vulgate is the most ancient and au-
thoritative version of the Latin Church
This translation was made by Saint Je-
rome, at the command of the Pope Damas-
Gus, A. D. 394. Where the Hebrew has
Nachash, and the Greek has opfi8, the Vul-
gate has serpens-a serpent. Now if the
being who tempted Adam and Eve had
been a negro, it ia passing strange that no
one has ever found it out until the days of
polylgot "Ariel"
Finally, the common English Bible.
This translation was made 10 the reign of
King James l., by forty seven of the most
learned hnguists the English nation ever
produced. Where the Hebrew has
Nachash, the Greek Ophis, the Latin SER
pens, our authorized version has serpent.
Now, "Ariel," are you satisfied there
was no negro in the the garden of Eden
If you are not, we know we can convince
you. You, yourself forgetting your new
theory, say, on the sixth page of your
|
ever hear of the argumentum ad
hominem"
The curse on all the parties in this sad
transaction has been literally fulfilled.
Gen. iii. II, Is, 49,: "And unto Adam he
said, because thou hast hardened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the
tree, of whiehIl commanded thee, saying,
thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the
ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou
eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns
also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the
field. 10 the sweat OF thy face shalt thou
eat bread, till thou return unto the ground
for out of it vast thou taken for dust thou
art, and unto dus; shalt thou return"
Every fallen son and daughter of Adam,
and even the inarticulate earth on which
they live, will testify that this curse has
been literally fulfilled All nature is sigh
ing, murmuring, whispering, shouting, and
laundering ont true and solemn testimony
to this fact.
Gen. iii. l6: "And unto the woman he
said, will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception in sorrow shalt thou
bring forth children; and thy desire shall
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee. Every daughter Oh ldilen Eve - |
our witness that this curse has been ful-
filled to the letter.
Gen. ill., IA And the Lord God said
unto the serpent, because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and
above every beast Of the field; upon thy
belly shalt thou 90, and dust shalt thou eat
all the days of Thy life" If this creature
was negro as Ariel" teaches, has this
curse been literally fulfilled? Is the negro
cursed above all cattle, and above every
beast Of the feld"2 Does he travel on
all-fours," or on his belly? Does he
eat dust" Every negro, walking erect
on the face Of the earth, is our witness that
this curse was not Illuminated against him.
Who was this serpent? We cannot
tell: but the Holy Ghost can. Rev. xii. g,
says, "That old serpent, called the devil,
and Satan, which deceivth the whole
world" This is his name both in Greek
and Hebrew. Again, Rev. Xxx. 2 That
old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan"
Ariel" says he was negro. If he vas,
here was a fine opportunity for the Holy
Ghost to have informed Us.
That accurate Greek scholar and learned
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