The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-09
Tho Negro Descendant OF Adam.
ANOTHER REPLY TO "ARIEL'-REv. DE-. wISKLEas
sERXoS LAST MIGHT.

blcd TO hear tho learned divine
The text was from Acts viii, So: Then Phllil
preached unto him Jesus The preacher opone'
his discourse by callin attention to tic univer5ali
t. Of tho atcncment Jesus is able to save untt
tho uttermost II that come unto God by Tim. Il
illustration no gave the narrative Of the Ethiopear
. Eunuch, fror, which the text is taken. This Eth
o2ean read and heard the Gospel, believed and va!
baptiEsd. Abysslnisn tradition refers to him ai
The Christian patriarch OF the kingdom, as ar
Eyangolis. 10 Abyssinia, to Arabia Folk aud Cey
lon and states that he at last sealed his testimony
with martyr blood.
But says the preacher, book has recently been
circulated among lis which would mako al this
pitiful mummcry; declares an Ethiopedn as incapa'
ole Of religion as spotted leopard and vastly
more dangerous to the societies of men. To this
cruel scandal this discourse is designed to reply
to proclslm the wide scope OF saYation, and 10 in
stance the African as one to whom 9 benet1s ex'
tend.
I. The scope Of the salvation of Christ is world
wide. The Old Testament was given to chosen
people, the new recognizes no religious distinction
as subsisting any longer among the nations and
races of men. On the contrary, we there discover
tho most comprehensive statements Of tho extent
OF Christ's wors. Thus the Apostle commends
(Col III, III that evangelio knowled o which re-
news mans fallen nature lndscriminatey to Greek
and Jew, to circumcision and uDcrcumcision, to
barbarian and Soy .hian bond dire; for Christ,
says the Apostle. is ell in all
The Gospel comprehends men, because Christ
took upon himself the nature Of men. "The
Word was made flesh, and dwolt among Us, and
we behold his glory, the glory of tho only begot-
ten Of the Father, full Of grace" etc. The heather
are the inheritance Of Christ, end the uttermost
parts Of the earth his possession. The promise
Of Satan offered no temptation to the Lord, the
Garth vas his already. Gloriously on that day
roso the mountain seats Of the ancient races-the
Altli, where tie Mongoi had his seat; the Hima-
.ayas, where the Caucasian had his; The Noun
tans OF the Moon, where the African built his
oanin, and all tho intermediate populations ap-
peared, dlverging more and moro IRON the orig
inal type as they were further removed from the
central and dominant position whence they had
descended like rushing streams. And above these
points OF departure rose the point Of union, seat
OF Q grauder empire than ever gathered the kin-
dred peoples Of continents to its sta1dard-.he
Lount of God, to which all nations flow, as the
tribes went up OF old to Jerusalem. The Gospel
Will subdue the world, because it is the Gospel O.
the Son OF God. it IS intended for all men, be-
cause published by the Creator OF all Who then.
taat houors Jesus, and loves his knd will dare to
deny to any man or race the boaefta Of that re-
demption2 2
g The negro is one Of the objects Of radeeming
mercy. The apostle teaches that Jesus tastea
death for every man. II, then, the negro is man,
for him that sacrifcisl blood was shed. Ariel
asserts tAe negro is not man, and undertakes 10
establish his pont by certa.n arguments historic
and scliptural, blended with groundle3s assump-
tions, and passionate appeals. According TO ARIEL,
the negro is On initiative, talklng, worshipPng
beast. to whom 10 religion should DO impaired,
and no human sympathy extended. He is the
AhIilnan Of history, yelling beneath dark skin
the very principle Of darkness, tbs fedora! head OF
the brute creation, which, through him, has been
plunged in voe, fear and death-tho tempter In
Eden, the cause OF the food, OF the overthrow OF
pab.l, Of the destruction OF Sodom ard Conner
rah, and Of the determination C. lie Canacaites'
TO ciyilzo him is impossible; to chrstiaGlze him
proclamation; 10 separate from him Is TO walk in
tie ways OF God, and to possess, however guilty
otherwise, the righteousness OF Noah and OF Abra-
ham Inc preacher shows what 4 lameatablo
result must follow the acceptance Of such doctrine.
The fundamental argument Of Ariol ia that
white race cannot change. during the course OF
centuries, in conformation, complexion and hair.
Hence lie concludes that tie negro could not have
descended from Noah's family, which ia claimed
for the white race, Or from tue rst father OF man
kind. Ho must have been IN the Grk and ii the
garden to have existed now, and il not there as
mans kin Jman, then ~ an animal under his con-
troll, and having thus traced the origin OF the ne
gro BIZ the aid os the principle that ID marked va.
rety Of the huniaa race can spring up, Ariel pro-
ceeds to track this beast through he ntrlcacies OF
ancient history. Everything is altered TO hs per-
turbed imagination. The simple, scanty, passion
less records Of antiquity become appeals TO the
present age to avenge blood feud which is IS old
as the human race. The world is 8 stage for the
loves and hatos CT e visionary Othello. In short,
he creates romance OK history BY separating
from history one Of its leading and best establish
ed principles, the doctrine that the law Of change
runs parallel with the law Of perm .nence-the
great truth asserted BY the sccnce OF the ase,
that function and environment so affect life, that
rleties may spring,
What various races haze sprung from thls origi-
nal stock adams and Noah'sl, what influences
have not food, climate, hardship, luxury, the
f.rest, the desert the seashore, The mountain and
the swampy river exerted upon the children OF
Noah. To assign to lin simply the whlt9 race
as his posterty, is to leave without parentago not
the African only, but three-fourths o. the human
race beside. Who, then, Is the progenitor OF the
red Indian, of the yellow MonSol, OF the rcd-brown
Egyptian and Pho. ieiln, Of the bronze colored
Abysslnian, of the olive and black Hindoo, OF the
cully-healed blacks of Cochis, mentioned by He
70 10. us-of tho black Persaus, Of tie black
Caribs, whom tho Spanish discovcrcrs found
already established in the Western hemisphercf
To what ancestry shall we ass.gn the Hott4rtots,
Bushmea and C9raaas. with their lemon peel or
dingy yellow color negroes but net blacks II
hair, lips ind poss indicate race, what shall We do
with those !n whom one or another Of the distinc-
tive marks does not appear Thus the Abyssinian
has the Caucasian nose (and, what is more, the
Caucasian cul:ure) with thiok lips and wooy hair.
Is he 8 negro? The tlock H:ndoo has straight
,ir and Caucasian features. Tho yellow Mongol
has aa: uose. Tho Jew is light co!aplexioned On
the banks OF the Elbe, and black IL Cochin. wharo
also the climate changes the dark Portuguese into
black man,
Everywhere We see the balancing Of variations
an permanenee. Variety springs from tie type
the type remains, nn6 the variety Is established
Dsny this scientific principle, lnd the origin OF tho
human race is mystery, and ethnology, obscure
enough as it is, becomes decm. On, human
brute who speaks and wogships will not suffice
A hundred are needed; ane there IS as goUd rca-
SUI for creating c hundred or thousand as to in
vent one. But il the law Of variation e admit
as it ia and must be by every scientific inquirer,