The Tarboro' southerner., 1871-02-02
fi9a s<rIJafnss Wife. a. boi-
3aBY b RaRf h wAaaD sB axe HER.

hsBY4HEaRYo wAaaD 1B EEe HER. y-r4..
Ifspeopedo apteskgaestjoss, ,.how,
shah theg set irfafnation,? ;Eyen il
It De only Curiosity thai prompts ths
question, an answer may sometimes a.,
good. We dont suppose any t,uuan
being cares who Gains wife was, for
any pRaeticah reason. u There ,is no
Anneke Jana estate. We. presume, de-
pending on it--no title Of nobility that
any one would be likely to covet But,
then, IN Village " here people are not
so N uchSiae ohurrysbnt that they eau
sitsdoEasaad disspss Q matter, many
queer questions coase up. Here is one
of them, which has been Oh our hands
a year, but as it has kept through SO
many ages, Eitisnot likely to spoil 10
few months, aud SO here it is:
/ Eh sFsd DECEMBER II, 1853.
"REv. Henry WARD BEEcnER-
Dear Sir !: Please to inform me,
through the columns of the New York
Lstger, who Gains wife was, and
obIigc r ssf a. ....r
/ -f7" A READER OF THE LEDGER
There is 20 record of Ca,n's courts
ship or wedding. However interest,"
ing to the parties themselves, it is of
no interest to us, except upon the sup>
position that the account 10 Genesis
of the creation of Adam was designed
to exclude the supposition that any
people had been created. IF Adam
and Eve were the sole pFogenitors Of
the race, then Cain and Abel, it is in
ferred, must have married their own
sisters--a connection which is shcck>
ing to the sensibilities of the whole
race-at subsequent stage of de-
velopment. But many of the Fathers
of the Church denied that Adam and
Eve, aud their ehildren.' were the My
people on the globe. They affirmed
that the teAt in Genesis. very plainly
implies that thore were other inhsbi.
tants besides Asam's family. They
allege that verse fourteen, Of chapter
four, Of Genesis, plainly implies that
the earth was already widely popula-
ted for, when God declared that Cain
should be driven out from his family
and made. vagaboud ia the earth.
Cain deprecated the sentence and
pleaded that every one that findeth
me shall slay me-" 1t was plainly not
his family connections that he feared,
for he desired not to be driven from
them. 1t was the people that I'd
should meet whet a Batderer in the
earth. Who, then, were Il ese people
whom Cain feared to meet when be
should have gone forth into the earth7
1t is also reasoned by scholars tha;
tho most natural method Of soothing
his fears would have been to tel, him,
"There are nc other eople on the EARTH
except your fathers children" In.
stead of that, the Lo:d is represented
as falling in with Gains impression
respecting the population Of the wotld,
aud that He ",set q mark upon Cain.
lest any fading him should Kill hun"
| (Gen. 4: Is Still further, it is said
that Cain, separating himself from hls
kindred, went to the land Of Nod, casr
of Edon, " and he builded city, aud
called the name of the city after the
name of his son Enoch''I The Fathers
| very pertinently asked, Where did the
| people come from that lived 10 this
city !? > ss ... iii -. ..t
That would be an extraordinary state
of things which should have enabled
Csiu to FIJI up city. however small,
with his own children !! And it is in
! ferred, therefore, that there were other
people in the land besides the iInn5-.
diate posterity of Adam. II Adam
was the only progonitor, Cain must,
have married his sister. IF there were
other lines of people, other Adams, as
it were, then Cain must have msrried
into another stock.
/ We do not express any Judgment ia
1 the matter, We give our correspond,
ent the opinions that Lave been held in
the early days Of the church, but with
the additional statement, that almost
: all modern Christian writer's have re,
Ejected them. -. ...r
But as the origin Of the races has
in our Cay, assumed an important
scientific development, as very many
able scientists hold to a variety of oil
ginal-race stocks, it is interesting &c
know that those views have been held
, before, and upon supposed BiblicaI
grounds. 1.--
d But are there, no more questions
Fl about (Cain? Does nobody wish tc
know what the Mark was which th'
. Lord affixed to Cain? Does no on
wish to know how Cain died? Ques
, tions must be scarce to leave sucl
f points untoao9sa. If Cain is to b
. raised, he surely ought to Be thorough
f ly dealt with.
: A EEw CAIxcHIsM.-Nhom di