VOLUME XXXIII.
• DOG-Kl'-LER" ON CARROLL. J
Warm Respects Paid to the Author of
•■The NCSIO a Beast.'
Mr. Editor:
Doubtless your readers noticed
in the Reporter of September 7th,
that Timothy said lie believed that
we are on the wrong side of this
negro question. He says that our
theory or contention "may be good
modern philosophy but it is not
scripture as will be proven ere this
argument closes." Ho asks why .
wo should try to raise a streak of,
prejudice against the he is
bringing before tho people if. we
are able to down it, and says, "just'
let the argument go on and ask >
the rentiers to decide in the mat-!
ter,"' as we did In our discussion j
on the liquor question. But
reader, it is not our purpose toex-j
cite prejudice in the mind of any
one. But. on the contrary, we
would have you lay aside all prej
udice towards all races and classes
of men, and consider the ar
guments just as they are brought
on both sides of this subject. If
yon will do this we will be per
fectly willing and glad to have the
matter decided at the bar of pub
lic opinion as to whether or not
we are on the wrong side of the
question.
To our mind, Prof. Carroll's
book is so abominably corrupt
and anti-scriptural, we would pre
fer to have nothing to do with it
but for the fact that it is throwing
a fjamper on tho missionary spirit
nnd iti calculated to stifle tho no.-
bles« instinct Ci tiie human soul.
The sffirit that prompted our Sa
vior to leave the shining courts
of Heaven and come down to save
man from the bondage and thrall
dom of sin, finds expression in
missionary work when men and
women contribute of their means
and extend a helping hand to the
heathen and those who know not
of the gospel of Christ; and it is
the noblest characteristic of the
human soulj for it has love for its
source, and finds pleasure and de
light in bringing joy and gladness
into the hearts and lives of others.
But the work that Timothy de
clares to be "nothing more nor
less than the Bible as it is in toto"
is stifling this noble spirit; for it
claims that it is a violation of
God's la\v to preach the gospel to
any but the white man, as it de
' clares that all other people are
mere beasts and have no souls. It
plaims that all others except the
negro ore amalgamations of
the white man with the negro
which it declares to bo n beast and
without a soul. In the preface of
this book, the publishers say that
tho work is an an ay of biblical,
scientific and commonsense argu
ment, and Timothy swallows it
down and ays the same thing and
declares that it is "nothing more
nor less than the Bible as it is in
toto;" and says that he prides him
self on the good fortune of having
Buch a work as a reference in this
disonssiou. But reader, we de
clare to you that it is almost any
thing else than biblical, scientific
nnd commonsense in its argu
ments. And we believe that every
one who can tell a black sheep
from a white sheep, and yet know
that they are both sheep, will
agree with us when we are through
with this discussion. It makes no
t difference if Mr. Carroll has fixed
mp n theory of three distinct cre
y JSttons, and placed the negro in
that creation which he says con
sists of only mind nnd mntter, and
no difference that ho has laid
these things down as the premises
from which to draw his conclu
sions that tho negro and all hia
descendants by white men nnd
white women are soulless, if we
prove by the Bible that his con
clusion is wrong, it matters little
whether we pay any attention t->
his premises or not. By reference
to Mr. Carroll's book, it will be
seen that the author claims that
the Chinese, the Japanese, Mex
icans, Peruvians, Hindoos, Lap
landers, Fins, Basques, Coreana,
Australians, Malays, Indians and
nil other races under Heaven ex
cept the white wan nre without
souls, as he claims that they are
amalgamations of the white man
with the negro, which, as yon al
ready know, he says is a beast.
| But seeing that it would !>e only
I reasonably for «jme one to make
the loginrtl argument that if the
fathers and mothers of children
Iby negroes have souls, the child
ren would also have souls, ami the
| inquiry would be raised as to
| where tho line of distinction
should be drawu between those
(having souls and those having
j none, he seeks to forestall tee ar
gument by saying that in the gen
erative process of the white man
or white woman with a negro, the
soul principle in the white party
remains passive and is not im
parted to the offspring. But read
er, while this is the principal
ground upon which Mr. Carroll
bases his argument that no race of
people have souls but the white
man, it is contrary to all known
laws of nature. Suppose that we
have here a male and a female
sheep, both of a separate or dis
tinct typo—the One of a fixed
black type and no tendency to be
come white nor to impart a white
fleece to its offspring, while the
other is c>f a fixed white type and
no tendency to become black nor
to impart a black fleece to its off
spring, if you were to mate these
two sheep the one with the other,
who would be fool enough to say
that because the black sheep had
nothing of the nature of the white
fleece about it, the white sheep
could not impart the nature of its
white fleece to its offspring by the
black sheep V Apply the same
principle to fixed types of red and
white corn, and see if you don't
learn that the one type can impart
of its nature to the offspring or
plants resulting from the crossing
or union of the two types. Yet in
view of this immutable law, which
holds good throughout all the
realms of nature, Mr. Carroll
claims that it would be impossible
for a white man or a white woman
to impart the soul principle to
their offspring by a negro, as he
claims that the soul principle is
lacking in the negro. But if Mr.
Carroll could prove that tho soul
principle is lacking in tho negro,
(which ho cannot), we could still
say (and with as much propriety)
that a white sheep could not" im
part of its white nature to its off
spring by a black sheep, just be
cause the black sheep has nothing
of the white nature about it, as to
say that a white man or woman
cannot impart the soul principle
to his or her child by a negro be
cause the soul principle is lacking
in the negro. Notwithstanding
Timothy and others claim that
Carroll's book is scientific, we be
lieve that we have shown that his
argument here is anything else
but scientific. And we will now
answer the argument from a scrip
tural standpoint. But first, we
wish to say that In order to save
his theory, Carroll trys to fore
-(tall the Bible argument that may
be brought against it just here by
trying to make it appear that the
Bible always uses the terms
"tribes," "nations" and "empires"
.s TO li I,S A A* if CAIiOLIS A.
DANBUItY, N.C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1905.
ill a political sense, and never in a
racial sense, (see page 30 of his
book). Timothy uses the same
argument in his letter of August
the third. But we deny the truth
fulness of this claim; for the Bible
often uses the terms "nation,"
"tribe" and similar words in a
racial sense. You see, reader, the
Bible speak.-) of preaching the
crospel to all nations, and speaks
also of people baing redeemed out
of all nations. And if Prof. Car
roll could make it appear that the
word "nations" here, means differ
ent political or corporate bodies of
the same kind of men, (the white
man), then it would leave out all
other races of men—the Chinese,
•the Japanese, Mexicans, etc., and
corroborate his theory that all
these people are without souls and
outside of the plan of salvation
because thoy are amalgamations of
the white man with the negro
which he says is a beast and has
110 soul. But let tis see if it is
true that the Bible always uses
the terms "tribes" and "nations"
in a political sense, as Mr. Car
roll claims. As the New Testa
men* was first written in the Greek
language we will notice "some of
the meanings of the Greek words
the terms "tribes" and "nations"
translate. In tho original lan
guage there are three Greek words
which are translated by the word
"nation," in our English New
Testament. In Phil. 2:15 we find
the word "nation" in the English,
and "genoa" in tho Greekj and
Dr. Young says that "genea"
i meano "generation," "race.' And
Liddle and Scott, in their Greek-
English Lexicon, say that the
word means "a generation,"
"race," "stock," "family." In Mark
7:2ti, and in Gal. 1:14, we find the
word "nation," in the English,
and "genos," in the Greek. And
Young says that "genos" means
"generation," "race." Liddell and
Scott say that it means "race,"
"stock" "family," "a class," "sort"
"kind." The other Greek word
that is translated "nation" in the
English New Testament is "eth
nos," and it is so translated 51
times. For some of the instances
in which it is used we refer the
reader to Matt. 24:7 25:32. Luke
21:24, Acts 2:5, 7:7, Rev. 14:6,
17:15. The authorities on the
meaning of Greek words tell us
that ' ethnos" means "a company,"
"body of men" "race" "tribe."
So you see, reader, that upon the
whole, these three Greek words
carry with them a stronger racial
sense or meaning than thoy do a
political sense. And now let us
consider the word "nation" which
translates them. The Standard
Dictionary says that the word "na
tion" means "a people as an orga
nized body;" "a race;" "tribe." So
; when the Bible speaks about all
! the nations of earth it does not
mean just simply the different
political or corporate bodies of
white men, as Mr. Carroll claims,
but it includes every race and
| class of men under Heaven. The
same is true of the word "tribes,"
which is a translation of the Greek
word "phule," and which Liddell
and Scott define as "a union am
ong the citizens of a state," "a
class or tribe formed according to
blood," "a clan or caste." And
Webster, in giving the defiinition
of tho word "clan," among other
things says, that it means "a
race," "a family," "breed," "gener
ation." .So you see, reader, that
the word tribe is to be understood
in a racial sense as well as in a
political sense. (See Matt. 24: 90).
Now the Hebrew word "lashon,"
jthe Greek word "glossa"
|a n d their corresponding
English word "tongue" are all de
fined to mean the same thing
scripturally, and refer not only to
the physical organ of speech, but
to a language and tho people who
speak it, as in Isa. >s:lß, and
many places in Revelation. And
now, reader, bearing this in mind,
and remembering that Mr. Carroll
has declared that the Chinese, the
Japanese, the Mexicans, Peruvi
ans and Indians, eto., ara soulless,
and bearing in mind that all these
have a tongue or language, we ask
you to go with us to Rev. 5:9, and
read. Here is what is said ;
"And thoy sung a new song,
saying, Thou art worthy to take
the book, and open the seals there
of: for thou wast 6lain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood
out of every kindred, nnd tongue,
and people, and nation."
In the above scripture, the word
"tongue" stands for or means n
language and the people who
speak it. And we have already
seen that tha Chinese and the
others Carroll says are soulless,
have a tongue or language, and as
this scripture applies to "every
tongue" or language, of course it
includes the Chinese, the Japan
ese, Mexicans, Peruvians, Indians
and all the others w y ho have a
tongue or language. But Carroll
says that none but the white man
has a soul. So we will call on
Timothy who swallows Carroll's
theory and says it is "nothing
more nor less than the Bible as it
is in toto," toexplaiuthis mystery,
aud tell us, if the theory is true,
why it ia that these heavenly
choristers sing and rejoice over
the redemption of the Chinese and
all the other soulless creatures the
theory declares to bo the descend
ants of the white man by a beast.
How could people be redeemed to
God out of "every tongue" unless
the people of every tongue have
souls ? So you see, reader, that
it makes no difference what Mr,
Carroll has laid down as his
premises, this last scripturo is a
deathblow to all his conclusions,
and if we were not to produce any
other argument this one is suffi
cient to demolish his entire theory.
Before closing, we wish to show
Timothy what a ridiculous posi
tion his theory leads him into.
According to the immutable law
of God, that fathers and mothers
transmit or impart of their nature
to their children, if the scripture
is true that there will be people
"redeemed to God out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people,
and nation," and Carroll's thoory
is true that the white man cannot
impart the soul principle to his
children by a negro, and it is true
that all but the negro and white
man are amalgamations or descend
ants of the white man by the
negro, then Carroll and Timothy
have argued themselves out of
their own souls; or in other words,
they have proved that the negro
has a soul, and that they them
selves and all other white people
are without soul, the very reverse
of what they have been trying to
prove. Since the word of God
declares that people will be re
deemed to God out of "every ton
gue and nation." And since the
Chinese and Japanese have ton
gue or language it follows that
they have souls to redeem. And
as Prof. Carroll claims that these
people and all others expect the
white man and negro areamalgaina
tions or descendants of the whito
man by the negro, and declares
that the white man imparted no
soul principle to them, it follows
that the soul principle was im
parted to them by the negro side
of their parentage or grogenitors,
nnd proves thnt the negro has a
soul which is inherent to his na
ture. On the other hand, as it is
an immutable law of' God that fa
thers and mothers impart of their
nature to their children, it follows
that if white men and white women
do not impart the soul principle
to their children by -negroes it is
because thoy do not have it to im
part. So then if God's word is
true and his law immutable, Car
roll's theory proves the reverse of
what it was intended to prove, and
shows that the negro and his de
scendants by the white man have
souls, and that the white man has
none, and is therefore, not recog
nized as a part of the kindreds,
tongues and nations from whioh
God's word declares souls will be
redeemed to him. It is a monst
rous theory. But Timothy claims
that we have taken the wrong side
of tho question. But the reader
can drnw his own conclusions in
regard to this matter.
D. K.
VADE MECUM.
Vade Mecum, Oct. 17.—Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Vaden, and son, Rodie,
visited Mr. Brud Simmons, last
Saturday and Sunday.
Aughburn Vaden is going
up Lynchburg road very often.
What is drawing your attention
up their, Aughburn? Miss Susie,
I guess.
There will be prenching nt Mr.
Tom Vaden's on the fifth Saturday
in Oct. Everybody invited.
Mr. John B. Vaden made a mis
take the other night. He walked
with the wrong girl. Come again,
Johnnie.
Misses Texie Vaden, Elfie and
Simmons and little Josie
Simmons visited Mr, Jim Vaden
last Monday. Come again, girls,
Miss Fannie Smith is looking
very sad, as Mr. Willie Ore is go
ing to move to Henry county, Va.
Mr. Powell East visited up in
Big Creek section last Saturday.
Mr. Fletcher Vaden says he is
going to see his best girl next
Sunday.
GIDEON.
Gideon, Oct. 10.—Mr. Johnnie
Dunlap went 'possum hunting
Saturday night and caught seven
and was after the eight one, but
gave up the chaso. I supposo he
has caught something over twenty
five already. Now who can catch
any more than that?
Misses Judea Ray and Delia
Stewart visited the Misses Dun
lap's Saturday and Sunday.
A number of young people from
Meadows got fooled Sunday. Came
over to Wilson to preaching, but
the preacher was attending an as
sociation at Good Will.
Miss May Pitzer, of Winston-
Salem, is on a visit to her parents
near Red Shoal.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Joyce visit
ed at Madison the past week.
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Briefs Adrift.
Mr. Jack Tedder, of Meadows,
was in Danbury a short whilo
Friday.
Mr. Julius J. Priddy, of Dan
bury Route 1, was a Danbury
visitor Thursday.
Mr. Charles Woods and wife, of
Sandy Ridge Route 1, are both ill
with typhoid fever.
Mr. J. W. Moser, a prominout
citizen of King Route 2, visited
Danbury on business Friday.
The Taylor Hotel is undergoing
very extensive repairs. The work
is being done by Contractor R. H.
R. Blair, assisted by Messrs John
Bennett and Raleigh Stewart.
The 13-roonths-old infant of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Shelton, of
Danbury Route 1, died on the
15th with something like mem
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Key & Smith will open up the
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Dr. J. M. Sheppard, of Cooper,
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Dollar, was in Danbury a short
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Cards of invitation have been
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Ray, on Wednesday, October 25th,
at high noon, in the Baptist
church, Leaksville, Miss Ivie and
Dr. Ray are among the most pop
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