Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-09-17
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Gharicstown, Jefferson County, West Va
TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER -. 1s7a
1.-THE NEGRo-ARIEL.U y


chievous publication (whose aim is to prove
the Negro a soulless beast and not member
Of Adams race) has found its way among us.
1t is characterized by positiveness of as
sertion and shop of learning quite over
whelming to people not sufficiently furnished
, TOR testing the accuracy and trustworthiness
of its positions
Will you not, then, open your columns to
some counter: statements that hay e been made to
the somewhat pretentious dogmatism of this
new Light2'
Our part in this matter is "a very humble
one-viz, to furnish your readers (in brief and
popular form) few conclusions of other in
vestigators, who on general grounds are as
worthy of hearing (.o say the least) as the
authoritative ''Aricl." The predominant tone
| and temper of this author, it may be Just to
observe at the outset, is not the most pre-
| possessing and reassuring to candid and we'll
balanced minds.
For instance; with much profession of rever-
ence for and devotion to the Bible and the
| God OF the Bible, this writer indulgos in the
most unqualified aenumcidtion of all christen-
dom. AS God~fearing man he dare not
cnfcr any cristiny christian church as n ecor-
shapper No one can remain an any church.
Roman Catholic or Protestant and capect
saleation !"
From beginning to end, be pronounces all
translators and interpreters of Scripture. an
cient and modern Except hirnself) amistraus-
tators, or perverters of Reveation-in other
words f1R0r0n,WSeS and kn0Ucs!
We say all this and much more in the same
vein, does not much commend itself to the
reason OF sober and just-teoling minds, or
promise we'll for the principles which seem to
lead to it. But to the direct teaching of the
book
The chief basis of the Bcast>thco,y Gas far
as the Biblical argument goes) is the Scrip
tire use OF certain terms in the original. which
dN translators and commentators (before the
time Of the accurate (?) Truth loving sAricl')
have confoune3ed as synonyms whereas these
terms are totally and irrcconcilaJly distinct in
| sense, aud the original consistent and inyari>
ddtc in its application of them. "By inatten-
tion to this distinction" says "Aricl," s.the
world is indebted for the confusion which ex.
lists regarding Adam and his Race, and the
Negro" Tho Hebrew words Ahc}ahne, H1
AhdoAne (Adau, The Adam) we're names be-
slowed by God and represent the chte race !:
the Hebrew word ccSh was bestowed Jv A0un,
and represents the Negro the Hebrew word
e"oAsh, likewise bestowed by Adans, reprc,
acuts the muatto. Tho Hebrew word uusley,
also bestowed by Adam, represents further
cross between tho white man aud the mulatto.
these words arc NEpER comfount'c1 iu
Gmt sUordtoge,hor." LET us sec how Aricls
Hebrew holds out.
lst. AAtuhm, :M1 ihluhm, which he says
the Bible mc0cr applies to any excert to the
,chttcs Of pure breed. Now the Bite applies
this cery term to the "aN Hcsh" who perishcd
in the flood, whom Ariel contends were tainted
iy ,nlscegcnated blood. Read Gen VI, 5. 6. {:
God saw that tho wckcduess of men Cha
ahdahm) was great upon the earth. And
it repented the Lord that He had made hn
dhdahm. And the lord said I will DESTROY
Il" dheiahnn, &C., * s: aud all flesh died, &C..
fowl cattle * BEAST Il creep.
ing thing and every Ia AKDAHIi"
Thus "Arers" Hebrew breaks down before
we read foc aogcs in 1st. Look of The .kiGIc |!
Take another instance from the story of the
Ba6cl Builders Suggestive by tho way of
linguistic investiSatons.) 1t will be fouod
quite as fatally "co.toundiny" to this modern
linguist as to those
These, "Ariel" would havo us believe, in
accordance with his theory, were "ncgrocs i. o.
6edsts-having name from God as Adam
had-(see in proof the reason they assign for
building: "Gen. XII, 4, make US q
Name !") Tho next verso (5) says: The
children of men (Ha Ah1ahna) builded ~
Yet it is necessary to his theory that these
pco1ofe should be beasts which according to
his theory ah1ahns can mc0er mean.
Once more: this wonderful ethnologist tells
us the C1naanites were a nondescript race.
neither man nor beast, the unhallowcd progeny
OF miscegenation between son of Adam and
the Negro beast Hence Gods favoured chill
dren the pure 6loods Ola Ahdahm) were
bldden to cxterminato the polluted thing from
the face of the Earth.
Joshua, who tells how the sentence was ex-
eeuted, writes thus-Josh. XII, A., 4
'all the spoil X aud the cattle y Israel
took TOR a prey, &C., but every ha uAc7aAn,
cArieps' term for pure 61oods alone) they ue.
strcye3 'oith the edge Of the stcord." That is
the seattle" Uo which class belongs, accord>
ing to "Ariel," the Negro>Beast condemned
to determination by God) are sparcI-the
ahdahme (Afiel's pure Jloods) are DESTROYED
mercilessly because Gods purity loathed this
foul, miscegenotee2 progeny-which la abs
dahn, C'ArieP' says) mever means. When
Drs. disagree who shall decide
We are perplexed! Well perhaps "Arielv
knows more Hebrew than Moses, and Joshua
and the rest whose Uerndcular the Hebrew
was
We refer all sceptical depreciaters of the
Great He6ro'st .sArie" to the above wonder
full exhibitions of his linguistic acumen J.
Shame shame upon the christian worlds
contented ignorance all these centuries, But
We have an "Ariel" now. X = &.
FEARFuLLY Quick PuNIsHMENT.-Tobe
Darden (colored) attempted a few days since
to commit a rape upon little girl ten years
of age, the daughter of W. f. Pride, who re-
sides near Springfield, Robertson county,
Tenn. The screams of the child caused other
children to go to her assistance, when the
negro abandoned his purpose and returned to
work near by. Mr.. Pride went after him
with a double- -barreled shot>gun, drove him
| to the spot where The rane was attemnted and