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shelter, however insecure, erected by a perversion of the writings and example of those remarkable men, who fill a prominent place in sacred history. How consoling it must be to the slaveholder, while standing upon the neck of an unresisting brother, and crushing his humanity into the dust with heartless cruelty, to hear from a doctor of divinity tha

n hold slaves, yea, it is, they tell us, the duty of good men under some circumstances to hold slaves. To be sure THEY do not hold slaves for "gain," but from motives of pure "charity," or from stern "necessity." They and their slaves are ALWAYS in such peculiar cases that emancipatio

confidence with which slaveholders and their apologists quote it in defense of slavery, and the recklessness with which it is denounced by a class of infidel abolitionists, impel us to enter into this inquiry; and in pursuing it we sh

ntioned is identical with slavery; that the prediction of the oppression of a people justifi

s a shadow of doubt with regard to its inspiration. "And Noah awoke from his wine" and pronounced this malediction. Is it no

tions of essentially the same character, and this cannot be done. Neither philology nor history affords the

had been predicted? The divine prescience sees all things at one glance, and may inspire men to prophesy, but prophecy touches not the moral agency of men. When our Lord was crucified, the "scripture was fulfilled," but they who crucified him were murderers, nevertheless. Hence, even should we admit

as good an apology for the enslavement of Englishmen as colored Americans. Ham had four sons,-Cush, Misriam, Phut, and Canaan, and the curse was directed against Canaan

afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboim, even unto Lasha." Gen. 10: 15-19. Now these nations and boundaries were all locate

afforded no apology for the oppression of that posterity;[6] and finally the Africans and colored Americans are not the descendants of Canaan, and henc

of Cush even after the blood of the Cushites (Moses' wife was a Cushite) has been mingled with the blood of the "first families" of Virginia, and of all the

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