The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-29

g His interpretation OF Gen. tx. 25-7.
IS SO misleading. as well as SO damaging,
4 To oepenaens, struggling, deserving
people, That L 0eslre to say something III
reply.
lend Wiley attempts to show by this
Scripture that It is not only useless, but
Dy impiicar ton that it would be wrong. TO
educate the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" race
because GOD has decreed otherwise
But there is no reference In these verses
to the black race. Let US see. Ham. the
son OF Noah, had four sonS-Cush Miz-
ruin, Phut, and Canaan.
Cush was the father OF the black race,
Mizraim was the father of the Egyptians
and other kindred nations along the east
ern part of Africa, and Canaan. who was
cursed, was the father of the Canaanites,
whose country extended along the east
ern shore of the Mediterranean Sea-
The Canaanites. then, were Asiatics,
and not Africans, except, perhaps, the
Carthaginians.
The oinerent branches Of the Canaan
ties Were known as HittiteS. Jebusltes.
Amorites, Gergasites, Invites. Arkites,
and some others. These are the people
who fall unGer the curse OF Noah, and
who were nearly eXterminated during
and after the time when the 1sraeiites,
by Gods direction, took possession or
their country.
Ihey were not the descendants VI SGsLp
the father of the black race,
The Guarantees, who escaped exterml-
nation, fled to Europe rather than TO AL
RIGA where they lost all national exist
ence, and became servants of servants
urto their brethren. thus fulfilling the
curse which Friend Wiley claims for the
sons of Cush. The Gibeonites, who were
of CanaanitiSh descent, We're literally
subjected to slavery for life: another In
stance of the fultilmeut of the maledic-
ton.
That branch of the Canaanites known
as Phoenicians and Carthaginians formed
colonies III Spain, France, Ireland. Eng
lard, and other places in Europe, and
their blood mot black may be found
somewhere on this side of the Atlantic
But these people, as said above, lose
all national existence. No curse is re-
corded in the Bible against Cush or his
descendants. Let us all be willing TO
accept the facts in the case, whether they
be for Or against us, and go right on 90
ing more for this dependent race thar
ever has been done for these people be-
fore.
The following sentence, in an editorial
br The Times of the 18th instant, is
worthy a serious consideration by the
whole conventions:
IF we deprive the negro of the oppor-
tunity to educate his children. we VIII
have an illiterate class. that grows worse
as it grows older
How could this be otherwise.
Virginia is bound by every considera-
ton of duty and justice to educate all her
chldren-those of Indian, French. Span
ish, Italian German, and African descent,
as well as those of English descent. Give
the colored people a chance to become
mutually beneficial to themselves and to
their State, by selling them land at rea-
sonable prices, by giving them work to
do at living wages. by giving them the
benefit of the public schools. Don't deny
them these things and then denounce
them as ignoramuses and paupers. Fair
and lust treatment would make good citl-
zens of them. l believe it would be the
very best solution of the So-cafled negro
problem Let us do all we can to solve
this problem and not Go as some. who
are really making it more difficult. by
using. either in conversation or in the
newspapers, that Objectionable term,
"social equality
Who wants it? Who is asking for it?
II is something that has always regu-
lated, and will ever regulate itself. not
only between races and between nations,
but between individuals of the same race
or nation.
If A sees that he is not wanted by 3.
he does not usually push himself, and
vice versa.
Those who refer to this term to stir up
strife between the races is not a friend
to either race.
May the Holy Spirit guide the mem
bers Of our Constitutional Convention in
their arduous work.
~ : A. H cUMBER.