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sense. The difference in organization is so great, that it 

 has led many wise men to believe that the Ethiopian race 

 was a distinct species of mankind. Others as firmly be- 

 lieve that the anatomical and physiological peculiarities 

 discovered and known to exist in this race of human be- 

 ings, will be found to be an exact duplicate of that por- 

 tion of Scripture which foretells the doom of Canaan to 

 servitude. 



All history and science go to prove, that the negro is 

 the slave of his appetites and sensual propensities, and 

 must of necessity be so from his anatomical structure. 

 The nerves of the spinal marrow, and the abdominal vis- 

 cera, being more voluminous than in other races, and the 

 brain being ten per cent, less in volume and weight, he is 

 from necessity, more under the influence of his instincts, 

 appetites, and animality, than other races of men, and 

 has less power of reflective faculties. 



The deficiency of intellect is not so great as is the want 

 of a balance between his animality and intellectuality. It 

 is the predominating animality that chains his mind to 

 the worst of slavery — slavery to himself and his appe- 

 tites — and makes him savage in his habits when left to 

 himself. His mind being thus depressed by the peculiar 

 formation of the nerves of organic life, nothing but arbi- 

 trary power can restrain the excesses of his animal na- 

 ture : for he has not the poiver ivithin himself. 



It is undeniably true, that nothing but the compulsory 

 power of a master, has ever made him lead a life of in- 

 dustry, temperance and order: and it is my firm belief, 

 that nothing else has or ever will convert the savage 

 negro into a civilized being. 



Withdraw that power, and the present race of peace- 

 ful, happy and contented slaves of the United States, 

 would relapse into barbarism. All history shows, that, in 

 a state of freedom from the control of the white man, he 

 is not a free agent to choose the good from the evil ; but 

 under the control of that government, which, if God ever 

 ordained one single thing in the Old Testament, he or- 



