Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-05-13
ss C0lib0u.s,

| We have Just recelv0d Pamph!el pealihg lns
above title 1t processes to be sequel TO "Arie',
and consequently treats of tho hegro.,tt
Shortly after the clOse of the wal, <hz;h as 'the
incipiency of the agitation Of negro equality, uni
versal suffrage, etc. our distinguished townsmar
| Gov. pickens, it will be remembered by many
in n letter to New Orleans paper-a letter which
attracted much att nton-alludel to two distinct
creations as recorded in Genesis, and insisted
that one of these creations was far superior to the
other,-:he superior race being the Caucasian
the inferior race the negro, &c.
Since then, which was the fret time ~e remen
Der 10 have had our attention directed to this Gu
rous and interesting matter, divers articles upon
the same subject, from different authors, have ap.
pearcd before the public; among others, Ariel, I"
which provoked much comment, and produced great
excitement as we'll in the political US in the re-
ligious world.
The present pamphlet, "Caliban," is more mod.
crate in its scope than Ariel" and If not as in
gcriuus, certainly as interesting. And If we
mistake not, il. views are almost identical with
those expressed by Gov. Pickens, in the letter to
| which we have referred. ~
We have been especially pleased with the e1-
tre1ncly upropos quotations from Shakspeare's
"rempest" What could bc moro so in regard to
the common type of the negro than Triuculo's
inquiry, "What have wc here! man or .
fish? lie smrlls like fish, Il rsFy Gucient and
ASH like smell. strange f.h Ware I in Eng
I. a.; h tad hol;
day fool there but would give piocc of silver.
There would this monster make mnu any
strange beast there makes man. When they
will not give doit to relieve lame beggar. they
will Law out ten to see dead Indian" And
what more pointed than Caliban's" song:
HRan, Ban. Ca-Caliban
Has n now master Get a new man.
Freedom, hey day hey-day freedom, friedom !"
This song really seems to have been written for
our present race Of freedmen.
"Caliban" differs with "ArieP' in several i'm
portant points. He insists that there were two
creations, but makes one of them Pre-Adamite,
by God in his character of Eohim, or all-pow-
er:ul," and tho other by God in his character of
"Jshovah, or intelligent and holy" The Gr.t
creation, he contends, was spontaneous and sprang
forth Immediately at the fat Of Elohim the
second was gradual, as the formation Of Adam
from the dust Tho first, he says, were, and still
a.c savage and barbar,us, as the negroes always
W Il be; the second, labofers aud tillers of the
soil, &c, Us the Csucasians of to-day.
Up to the second creation, our author says,
quoting from Genesis, there WAS not maa to
till the ground" "Deity therefore resolved to
crertc ner rage, a rnco of tlers of the grOund;"
aud for this purpose, Adam was created.
This is the mistake, we venture to suggest,
made hy the New Orleans Letter, by ariel"
" Caliban," and all the writer's We have read upon
this subject. Adam, it wns evident, was never
intended by God to bo tiller of the ground.
After his creation, and that Of Eve, thoy were
placed in the garden Of Eden, where, according
to Genesis, they were surrounded by every comfort,
by all hampers Of flesh and fruit, tho latter of
Knowledge Now it Is distinctly and succinc,ly
stated in the accounts that God never cursed Adam
until after tho fall. Then it was that the curse
came: In the sweat OF thy face ahalt thou eat
bread" That is, thou shalt work. Evidently,
Adam was Gods farorite creation, and he did not
intend him to be laborer; on the contrary, he
WAS formed in the image Of God himself, and
placed in the garden "only little below the,an-
GELS" He was surrounded with NIL things bsau-
ifpl, and oil things necessary to being of a gu:
periOr order. And the ysry cRrso itself was work,
labor, toll. This in fapt has been FROM tine im-
memorial, end is to-day, the curse Of man. And,
disguise it as VIC may, both white and black hate
it equally. This much, however, We have ven
tured by way of parenthO,is, as We do not intend
to argue tho subject.
The next announcement of importance in the
pamphlet before us is that tho Flood was only
partial. "ThO notion Of universal food has