Chapter III: Part 3

But we have said before, that we intentionally selected Canaan, the youngest son of Ham, and for a purpose. This we will now explain. Had Noah named Ham instead of Canaan, when he declared that he should be a servant of servants to his brethren, the learned world are of the opinion that it would have forever, and _satisfactorily_ settled the question, in conjunction with the meaning of his name in Hebrew, _that Ham was the father_ of the present negro race--that if _this curse_ had been _specifically_ and personally directed against Ham, instead of his youngest son Canaan, then, no doubt could exist on earth, but that Ham was, and is the father of the negro. This is the opinion of the learned. But, why so? Could not the curse affect Canaan as readily? If it could affect Ham in changing his color, kinking his hair, crushing his forehead down and flattening his nose, why would it not be equally potent in producing those effects on Canaan? Surely its effects would be as great on one person as another? It was to relieve our learned men from this dilemma, among others, that we took up Canaan, to show, that although this _curse_ was hurled specifically and personally at Canaan, by Noah, that a servant of servants should he be, yet it carried _no such effects_ with it on Canaan or his posterity. Then, if it did not make the black negro of Canaan, how could it have produced _that effect_ on Ham, Canaan's father? Canaan had two _white_ sons, with long, straight hair, etc., peculiar alone to the white race, and not belonging to the negro race at all, which is proof that the curse did not affect his hair or the color of his skin, nor that of his posterity. Canaan had two white sons by his first wife, Sidon and Heth. They settled Phoenicia, Sidon, Tyre, Carthage, etc. The city of Sidon took its name from the elder. That they were white, and belong to the white race _alone_, we have before proven, unquestionably. But we will do so again, for the purpose of showing what that curse was, and what it did effect, and why this order of extermination. Canaan was the father of all these _ites_. Nine are first specifically named, and then it is added, "and who afterward, were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad." Was not Canaan as much and no more the father of these _ites_, than he was of Sidon and Heth? Certainly. Then why doom them and their flocks and herds to extermination, and except the families of Sidon and Heth, his two other sons? Were they morally any better, except as to their not being the progeny of amalgamation with negroes? They were not. Then why save one and doom the other? If these _ites_ were no worse _morally_ than the children of Sidon and Heth, then it is plain, that we must seek the reason for their destruction, in something _besides moral delinquency_? Let us see if we can find _that_ something? The Bible tells us, that God in one of his interviews with Abraham, informed him that all that land (including all those _ites_) should be his and his seed's after him--"that his seed shall be strangers in a land not theirs, and be afflicted four hundred years, and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; _but in the fourth generation_ they shall come hither again, _for the iniquity of the Amorites_" (these representing all the ites), "is _not yet full_."

In the fourth generation their cup of iniquity would _then_ be full--in the fourth generation God gave this order to exterminate these ites, and to leave nothing alive that breathes. If this filling of their cup, referred to _moral_ crimes to be committed, or to moral obliquity as such, then it is _very strange_. If this be its reference, then these people were, at _that_ time (four generations previous to this order for their extermination), _worse_ than the very devil himself, as it was not long before they did fill _their cup_, and the devil's cup is not full yet. If this filling up of iniquity, referred to their _moral conduct_ in the sight of God, how was Moses or Joshua to _see_ that it was full, or _when_ it was full? Yet, they must _know_ it, or they would not know when to commence exterminating, as God intended. How were they to know it? As in the case of Sodom they had a few Lots among them, and the _color_ would soon tell when their iniquity was full, and neither Moses nor Joshua would be at any loss when to begin, or who to exterminate. Consummated amalgamation would tell _when_ their cup of iniquity was full. The iniquity of the Amorites (these representing all) is not _yet_ full, is the language of God--in the fourth generation it will be full, and _then_ Abraham's seed should possess the land, and these _ites_ be exterminated. Let us inquire? Does not each generation, morally stand before God, on their own responsibility in regard to sin? Certainly they do. How then, could the cumulative sins of one generation be passed to the next succeeding one, to their _moral_ injury or detriment? Impossible! But _the iniquity_ here spoken of, _could be so transmitted_; and at the time when God said it, he tells us that it required _four generations_ to make the iniquity full. What crime but the amalgamation of Adam's sons, the children of God, with the negro--beasts--called by Adam _men_, could require four generations to fill up their iniquity, but this crime of amalgamation? None. Then we _know the iniquity_, and what God then thought and yet thinks of it.

Nor is this all the evidence the Bible furnishes, of God's utter abhorrence of this crime, and his decided _disapprobation of the negro_, in those various attempts to _elevate_ him to _social_, _political_ and _religious equality_ with the white race. In the laws delivered by God, to Moses, for the children of Israel, he expressly enacts and charges, "that no _man_ having a _flat nose_, shall approach unto his altar." This includes the _whole negro race_; and expressly _excludes_ them from coming to his altar, for _any act of worship_. God would not have their worship then, nor accept their sacrifices or oblations--_they_ should not approach his altar; but all of Adam's race could. For Adam's children God set up his altar, and for their benefit ordained the sacrifices; but not for the race of _flat-nosed men_, and such the _negro race is_. And who shall gainsay, or _who dare_ gainsay, that what God does is not right? The first attempt at the social equality of the negro, with Adam's race, brought the flood upon the world--the second, brought confusion and dispersion--the third, the fire of God's wrath, upon the cities of the plain--the fourth, the order from God, to exterminate the _nations_ of the Canaanites--the fifth, the inhibition and exclusion, by _express law of_ God, of the _flat-nosed_ negro from his altar. Will the people of the United States, now furnish the sixth? _Nous verrons_.

There remains now but one other point to prove, and that is--That the negro has no soul. This can only be done by the express word of God. Any authority short of this, will not do. But if God says so, then all the men, and all the reasonings of men on earth, can not change it; for it is not in man's power to _give_ a soul to any being on earth, where God has given none.

It will be borne in mind that we have shown, beyond the power of contradiction, that the descendants of Shem and Japheth, from the present day back to the days of our Saviour, and from our Saviour's time back to Noah, their father, that they were all long, straight-haired, high foreheads, high noses, and belong to the white race of Adam. In the case of Ham, the other brother, there is, or has been, a dispute. It is contended, generally, by the learned world, that Ham is the progenitor of the negro race of this our day, and that, such being the case, the negro is our social, political and religious equal--_brother_; and which he would be, certainly, if this were true. The learned world, however, sees the difficulty of how Ham could be the progenitor of a race so distinct from that of Ham's family; and proceed upon their own assumptions, but without one particle of Bible authority for doing so, to account why Ham's descendants should now have kinky heads, low foreheads, flat noses, thick lips, and black skin (not to mention the exceptions to his leg and foot), which they charge to the _curse_ denounced by Noah, not against Ham, but against Ham's youngest son--Canaan. But, to sustain their theory, they further assume that this curse was _intended_ for Ham, and not Canaan; and they do this right in the teeth of the Bible and its express assertions to the contrary. Forgetting or overlooking the fact that, confining its application to Canaan, as the Bible expressly says, yet they ignore the fact that Canaan had two white sons--Sidon and Heth--and that it was impossible for the _curse_ to have made a negro such as we now have, or to have exerted any influence upon either color, hair, etc.; as these two sons of Canaan, and their posterity, are shown, unequivocally, to have been, and yet are, in their descendants, white. The learned world, seeing the difficulties of the position, and the weakness of their foundation for such a tremendous superstructure as they were rearing on this supposed curse of Ham, by his father, undertake to prop it up by saying that Ham's name means black in Hebrew; and, as the negro is _black_, therefore it is that the _name_ and the _curse_ together made the negro, such as we now have on earth. And, although the Bible nowhere _says_, and nowhere charges, or even intimates, that Ham is or was the progenitor of the negro; and in defiance of the fact that _no such_ curse was ever denounced against Ham, as they allege--nor can it be found in the Bible; yet they boldly, on these _assumptions_ and contradictions, go on to say that Ham _is_ the father of the negro of the present day. Contradicting the Bible; contradicting the _whole order of nature_ as ordained by God himself--that like will produce its like; contradicting the effect of every curse narrated in the Bible, whether pronounced by God, or by patriarch, or by prophet; and assuming that it did that, in this case of Noah, which it had never done before nor since--that it did change Ham from a white man to a black negro. Forgetting or setting aside the declaration of the Bible, that Ham and his brothers were the children of one father and one mother, who were perfect in their genealogies from Adam, and that they were white, they assume again, that the Bible forgot to tell us that Ham was turned into a negro for accidentally seeing his father naked in his tent. Tremendous judgment, for so slight an offense! We do not ask if this is probable; but we do ask, if it is within the bounds _of possibility_ to believe it? Did not the daughters of Lot see the nakedness of their father in a much more unseemly manner? Ham seeing his father so, seems altogether accidental; theirs deliberately sought. And on this flimsy, self-stultifying theory, the learned of the world build their faith--that Ham _is_ the progenitor of the negro! While, on the other hand, by simply taking Ham's descendants--those _known to be his descendants now_, and known as much so and as _positively_ as that we know the descendants, at the present day, of Shem and Japheth--that by thus taking up Ham's descendants of this day, we find them like his brothers' children--with long, straight hair, high foreheads, high noses, thin lips, and, indeed, every lineament that marks the white race of his brothers, Shem and Japheth; that we can trace him, with history in hand, from this day back, step by step, to the Bible record, with as much positive certainty as we can the descendants of his brothers; that, with the Bible record after, we can trace him back to his father, Noah, with equal absolute certainty, no one will deny, nor _dare_ deny, who regards outside concurrent history, of admitted authenticity and the Bible, as competent witnesses in the case; that the testimony in regard to Ham and his descendants being of the white race, is more overwhelming and convincing than that of Japheth--and none doubt Japheth's being of the white race; that God himself, foreseeing the slander that after ages would attempt to throw on Ham, as being the father of the kinky-headed, flat-nosed and black-skinned negro, caused a whole nation to do one thing, and that _one_ thing had never been done before, nor by any other nation since, and that he caused them to continue doing that one thing for centuries, and for no other purpose in God's providence, that we can see, but for the _alone_ purpose of proving the identity of Ham's children, from the flood downward, for more than twenty-three centuries, and that they, thus identified, were of the white race; and that this embalmment of Ham's children was so intended, as evidence by God; that like, as the Jewish genealogical tables served to identify Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, so this embalming of the children of Mizraim, the second son of Ham, serves to identify his descendants as belonging to the white race; and that, like the Jewish tables of genealogy, when they had accomplished the end designed by God, they both ceased, and at one and the same time.

Mizraim settled what is now called Egypt. He embalmed his dead. Where did he get the idea from? No nation or people had ever done it before; none have done it since. It was a very difficult thing to accomplish, to preserve human bodies after death; and to preserve them to last for thousands of years, was still more difficult. How did Mizraim come to a knowledge of the ingredients to be used, and how to use them? Yet he did it, and did it at once. The only satisfactory answer to these questions, is, that God _inspired him_. Then, it is God's testimony, vindicating _his son Ham_ from the aspersions of men--that he was a negro, or the father of negroes.

Ye learned men of this age--you who have contributed, by your learned efforts, and by your noble but mistaken philanthropy, innocently, honestly and sincerely as they were made, but wrongfully done--to fix and fasten on Ham this gross slander, that he is the father of the present race of negroes, must reexamine your grounds for so believing heretofore, and now set yourselves right. God's Bible is against your views; concurrent history is against them: the existing race of Ham is against them: _God's living testimony_ is against them, in the _dead_ children of Mizraim, embalmed ever since the flood, but now brought forth into the light of day, and testifying for Ham, that he and his descendants were and yet are of the white race. You must now come forth and abandon your fortress of _assumptions_, for _here that citadel falls; for, if Ham is not the father of the negro_ (which is shown _to be an impossibility_) then the negro came out of the ark, _and as we now find him_; and if he came out of the ark, _then he must have been in the ark_; and if he was in the ark, which, by the logic of facts, _we know_ he was--now let us read the Bible, the divine record and see whether or not the negro has a soul. It reads thus: "When the long-suffering of God waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is _eight souls_, were saved;" the negro being in the ark, was not one of those eight souls, and consequently he has _no soul to be saved_--the Bible and God's inspiration being judge. Carping is vain, against God. His order _will stand_, whether pleasing or displeasing to any on earth. But God only promised to _save eight_--Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their wives. These _had souls_, as the apostle (Peter) testifies, and _all that were in the ark that did have souls. The negro was in the ark; and God thus testifies that he has no soul_.

One point more. God has set a line of demarcation so ineffaceable, so indelible besides color, and so _plain_, between the children of Adam and Eve whom he endowed with immortality, and the negro who is of this earth only, that none can efface, and none so blind as not to see it. And this line of demarcation is, that Adam and his race being endowed by God _with souls_, that a _sense of immortality_ ever inspires them and sets them to work; and the one race builds what he hopes is to last for ages, his houses, his palaces, his temples, his towers, his monuments, and from the earliest ages after the flood. Not so the other, the negro; as left to himself, as Mizraim was, he builds nothing for ages to come; but like any other beast or animal of earth, his building is _only for the day_. The one starts his building on earth, and builds for immortality, reaching toward Heaven, the abode of his God; the other also starting his building on earth, builds nothing durable, nothing permanent--_only_ for present _necessity_, and which goes down, _down_, as everything merely animal must forever do. Such are the actions of the two races, when left to themselves, as all their works attest. Subdue the negro as we do the other animals, and like them, teach them all we can; then turn them loose, free them entirely from the restraints and control of the white race, and, just like all other animals or beasts so treated, back to his native nature and wildness and barbarism and the worship of daemons, he _will go_. Not so with Adam's children: Starting from the flood, they began to build for Eternity. Ham, the slandered Ham, settled on the Nile, in the person of his son Mizraim, and built cities, monuments, temples and towers of surpassing magnificence and _endurance_; and here, too, with them, he started all the arts and sciences that have since covered Europe and America with grandeur and glory. Even Solomon, whose name is a synonym for wisdom, when about to build the Temple, instructed as he was by his father David, as to how God had told him the Temple was to be built; yet he, notwithstanding his wisdom, was warned of God, and he sent to Hiram, King of Tyre, for a workman skilled in all the science of architecture and cunning in all its devices and ornaments, to raise and build that structure designed for the visible glory of God on earth. And Hiram, King of Tyre, sent him a widow's son, named Hiram Abiff; and who was Grand Master of the workmen. He built the Temple and adorned it, and was killed a few months before Solomon consecrated it. This Hiram, King of Tyre, and this Hiram Abiff, although the mother of the latter was a Jewess, were descendants of _this slandered Ham_. Now, we ask, is it reasonable to suppose that God would call, or would suffer to be called, a descendant of Ham to superintend and build his Temple, and erect therein his altar, if Hiram Abiff had been a negro?--a _flat-nosed negro_, whom he had expressly forbidden to approach his altar? The idea is entirely inconsistent with God's dealings with men. God thus, then, testifying in calling this son of Ham to build his Temple, his appreciation of Ham and his race.

Now, let us sum up what is written in this paper: We have shown, (1.) That Ham was not made a negro, neither by his name, nor the curse (or the supposed curse) of his father Noah. (2.) We have shown that the people of India, China, Turkey, Egypt (Copts), now have long, straight hair, high foreheads, high noses and every lineament of the white race; and that these are the descendants of Ham. (3.) That, therefore, it is _impossible_ that Ham could be the father of the present race of Negroes. (4.) That this is sustained by God himself causing Mizraim to embalm his dead, from directly after the flood and to continue it for twenty-three centuries; and that these mummies now show Ham's children to have long, straight hair, etc., and the lineaments alone of the white race. (5.) That Shem, Ham and Japheth being white, proves that their father and mother were white. (6.) That Noah and his wife being white and perfect in their genealogy, proves that Adam and Eve were white, and therefore _impossible_ that _they_ could be the progenitors of the kinky-headed, black-skinned negroes of this day. (7.) That, therefore, as neither Adam nor Ham was the progenitor of the negro, and the negro being now on earth, consequently we _know_ that he was created before Adam, as _certainly_ and as _positively_ as we _know_ that the horse and every other animal were created before him; as Adam and Eve were the last beings created by God. (8.) That the negro being created before Adam, consequently he is a _beast_ in God's nomenclature; and being a beast, was under Adam's rule and dominion, and, like all other beasts or animals, has no soul. (9.) That God destroyed the world by a flood, for the crime of the amalgamation, or miscegenation of the white race (whom he had endowed with souls and immortality), with negroes, mere beasts without souls and without immortality, and producing thereby a _class_ (not race), but a _class_ of beings that were neither _human_ nor _beasts_. (10.) That this was a crime against God that could not be expiated, and consequently could not be forgiven by God, and never would be; and that its punishment in the progeny is on earth, and by death. (11.) That this was shown at Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the extermination of the nations of the Canaanites, and by God's law to Moses. (12.) That God will not accept religious worship from the negro, as he has expressly ordered that no man having a _flat nose_, shall approach his altar; and the negroes have flat noses. (13.) That the negro has no soul, is shown by express authority of God, speaking through the Apostle Peter by divine inspiration.

The intelligent can not fail to discover who was the tempter in the garden of Eden. It was a _beast_, a _talking_ beast--a beast that talked _naturally_--if it required a _miracle_ to make it talk (as our _learned_ men suppose, and as no one could then perform a miracle but God only and if he performed _this_ miracle to make a snake, a serpent, talk, and to talk only with Eve, and that as soon as the serpent (?) seduced Eve into eating the forbidden fruit, God then performed another miracle to stop his speaking afterward, that if this be true), then it follows beyond contradiction, _that God is the immediate and direct author_ or cause _of sin_: an idea that can not be admitted for one moment, by _any_ believer in the Bible. _God called it a beast--"more subtile than all the beasts the Lord God had made."_ As Adam was the federal head of all his posterity, as well as the real head, so was this beast, the negro, the federal head of all beasts and cattle, etc., down to creeping things--to things that go upon the belly and eat dust all the days of their life. If all the beasts, cattle, etc., were not involved in the sin of their federal head, why did God destroy them at the flood? If the crime that brought destruction on the world was the sin of Adam's race alone, why destroy the _innocent_ beasts, cattle, etc.? When all things were created, God not only pronounced them good, but "very good;" then why destroy these innocent (?) beasts, cattle, etc., for Adam's sin or wrong-doing? But, that these beasts, etc., were involved in the _same_ sin with Adam, is positively plain, from _one fact alone_, among others, and that fact is: That before the fall of Adam in the garden, all was peace and harmony among and between all created beings and things. After the fall, strife, contention and war ensued, as much among the beasts, cattle, etc., as with the posterity of Adam; and continues so to the present time. Why should God thus afflict _them_ for another's crime, if they were free and innocent of that crime? God told Adam, on the day of his creation, "to have dominion over everything living that moveth upon the earth:" but to Noah, after the flood, he uses _very_ different language; for, while he told Noah to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, the same as he said to Adam, yet he adds, "and the fear of _you_ and the _dread_ of you _shall_ be upon every beast of the earth, etc., and all that moveth upon the earth, etc.; into _thy_ hands are they delivered". If these had continued in their "_primeval_ goodness," wholly unconnected with Adam's sin, is it reasonable to suppose that God would have used the language toward _them_, that he did in his _instructions_ to Noah? It is impossible! The intelligent can also see the judgments of God on this "_unforgivable_" sin, at the flood, at Babel, at Sodom and Gomorrah, and on the Canaanites, and in his law; and they may profit by the example. They can see the exact time (A.M. 235), _when men_--the negro--erected the _first_ altar on earth; _they_ had seen Adam, Cain, Abel, and Seth, erect altars and call on the name of the Lord. They, too, could _imitate_ them; they _did_ then _imitate_; they then built _their_ altars; they _then_ called an the name of the Lord; they are yet _imitating_; they are _yet profaning_ the name of the Lord, by calling on his name. And _you_, the people of the United States, are upholding _this profanity_. Who was it that caused God to repent and to be grieved at his heart, that he had made _man_? Will _you_ place yourselves alongside of that being, and against God? All analogy says _you will_! But remember, that the righteous will escape--the hardened alone will perish.

The ways of God are _always consistent, when understood_, and always just and reasonable. It is a curious fact, but a fact, nevertheless, and fully sustained by the Bible; and that fact is this; That God _never conferred_, and never _designed_ to _confer_, any great _blessing_ on the human family, but what he _always_ selects or selected a white _slaveholder_ or one of a white _slaveholding nation_, as the _medium_, by or through which _that blessing_ should reach them. Why he has done so, is not material to discuss now; but the _fact_, that he _always_ did so, the Bible abundantly proves. Abraham, the father of the faithful, and in whom and his seed all the families of the earth were to be blessed, is a notable instance of this truth. For Abraham owned three hundred and eighteen _slaves_. And the Saviour of the world was of a white _slaveholding nation_; and they held slaves by God's own laws, and not by theirs. And how has it been in respect of our own nation and government, the United States? A government now declared by thousands of lips, latterly, to be the best, the very best, that has ever been in the world. Who made this government? Who established it and its _noble principles_? Let us appeal to history. The first attack on British power, and the aggressions of its parliament, ever made on this continent, was made by a slaveholder, from a slave state, Patrick Henry, May 30, 1765. The first president of the first congress, that ever assembled on this continent, to consider of the affairs of the thirteen colonies, and which met in Philadelphia, September 5, 1774, was a slave owner from a slave state, Peyton Randolph. The only secretary that congress ever had, was a slave owner from a slave state, Charles Thompson. The gentleman who was chairman of the committee of the whole, on Saturday, the 8th of June, 1776, and who, on the morning of the 10th reported the resolutions, that the thirteen colonies, of right ought to be free and independent _states_, was a slaveholder from a slave state, Benjamin Harrison. The same gentlemen again, as chairman of the committee of the whole, reported the Declaration of Independence in form; and to which he affixed his signature, on Thursday, July 4, 1776. The gentleman who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was a slave owner, from a slave state, Thomas Jefferson. The gentleman who was selected to lead their armies, as commander-in-chief, and who did lead them successfully, to victory and the independence of the country, was a slave owner, from a slave state, George Washington. The gentleman who was president of the convention, to form the constitution of the United States, was a slave holder, from a slave state, George Washington. The gentleman who wrote the constitution of the United States (making it the best government ever formed on earth), was a slave owner, from a slave state, James Madison. The first president of the United States, under that constitution, and who, under God gave it strength, consistency and power before the world, was a slave owner, from a slave state, George Washington; and these were all white men and slave owners; and whatever of peace, prosperity, happiness and glory, the people of the United States have enjoyed under it, have been from the administration of the government, by presidents elected by the people, of _slave holders_, from _slave states_. Whenever the people have elected a president from a non-slaveholding state, commencing with the elder Adams, and down to Mr. Lincoln, confusion, wrangling and strife have been the order of the day, until it culminated in the greatest civil war the world has ever beheld, under the last named gentleman. Why this has been so is not in the line of our subject. We mention it as a matter of history, to confirm the Bible fact, _that God always_ selects _slaveholders_, or from a _slaveholding_ nation, the media through which he confers his blessings on mankind. Would it not be wisdom to heed it now?

One reflection and then we are done. The people of the United States have now thrust upon them, the question of negro equality, social, political and religious. How will they decide it? If they decide it one way, then they will make the _sixth_ cause of invoking God's wrath, once again on the earth. They will begin to discover this approaching wrath: (1.) By God bringing confusion. (2.) By his breaking the government into pieces, or fragments, in which the negro will go and settle with those that favor this equality. (3.) In God pouring out the fire of his wrath, on this portion of them; but in what way, or in what form, none can tell until it comes, only that in severity it will equal in intensity and torture, the destruction of fire burning them up. (4.) The states or people that favor this equality and amalgamation of the white and black races, _God will exterminate_. To make the negro, the political, social and religious equal of the white race by _law_, by _statute_ and by _constitutions_, can easily be effected in _words_; but so to elevate the negro _jure divino_, is simply _impossible_. You can not elevate a _beast_ to the level of a son of God--a son of Adam and Eve--but you may depress the sons of Adam and Eve, with their _impress_ of the Almighty, _down to the level of a beast_. God has made one for immortality, and the other to perish with the animals of the earth. The antediluvians once made this depression. Will the people of the United States make another, _and the last_? Yes, they will, for a large majority of the North are unbelievers in the Bible; and this paper will make a large number of their clergy deists and atheists. A man can not commit so great an offense against his race, against his country, against his God, in any other way, as to give his daughter in marriage to a negro--a _beast_--or to take one of their females for his wife. As well might he in the sight of God, wed his child to any other beast of forest or of field. This crime _can not_ be expiated--it never has been expiated on earth--and from its nature never can be, and, consequently, _never was forgiven by God, and never will be_. The negro is now free. There are but two things on earth, that may be done with him now, and the people and government of this country escape destruction. One or the other _God will make you do_, or _make you accept his punishment_, as he made Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Canaanites, before you. You _must send him back to Africa_ or _re-enslave him_. The former is the best, _far the best_. Now, which will my countrymen do? I do not say _fellow-citizens_, as I regard myself but as a sojourner in the land, whose every political duty is now performed by obeying _your_ laws, be they good or bad--not voting, nor assisting others in making _your_ laws. Will my countrymen, in deciding for themselves these questions, _remember--will they remember_, that the first law of liberty is obedience to God. Without this obedience to the great and noble principles of God, truth, righteousness and justice, there can be no liberty, no peace, no prosperity, no happiness in any earthly government--if these are sacrificed or ignored, God will overturn and keep overturning, until mankind learn his truth, justice and mercy, and conform to them.

To the people of the South, we say, _obedience_ to God is better than all sacrifices. You have sacrificed all your negroes. It was _your ancestors_, that God made use of to form this noblest of all human governments--no others could do it. Do not be cast down at what has happened, and what is _yet to happen_--God will yet use you to reinstate and remodel this government, on its just and noble principles and at the _proper time_. The North _can never do it_. These are perilous times--the _impending decisions will be against you, and against God_. But keep yourselves free from _this sin--do not by your acts, nor by your votes, invite the negro equality--if it is forced upon you_, as it will be--obey the laws--remembering _that God will protect the righteous_; and that his truth, like itself, will always be consistent, and like its Author, will be always and _forever triumphant. The finger of God is in this. Trust him._ The Bible is true.

_July_, 1840.

_December_, 1866. ARIEL.

NOTE 1. Any candid scholar, wishing to address the writer, is informed, that any letter addressed to "Ariel," care of Messrs. Payne, James & Co., Nashville, Tennessee, during this summer and fall (1867), will reach him and command his attention.

NOTE 2. Some few kinky-headed negroes, have been found embalmed on the Nile, but the inscriptions on their sarcophagii, fully explain who they were, and how they came to be there. They were generally _negro traders_ from the interior of the country, and of much later dates.