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enviable, than that of nine-tenths of the laboring peas- 

 antry of Europe. If, in freedom, the descendants of 

 Canaan could do better; live happier; become more re- 

 ligious; and rise higher in the scale of civilization, than 

 under subjection to the whites; would that decree, doom- 

 ing them to become the "servants of servants," ever have 

 been found in the revelations of the Bible? 



And even those who unfortunately are unable to see 

 the hand of God in all things, cannot help observing that 

 the happiness or misery of this people has not been left 

 to the chance of having a good or bad master, but that in 

 his anatomical and physiological structure, his mind and 

 body show a most wonderful fitness of things, to enable 

 him to fulfill the destiny that his very name indicates was 

 anciently decreed he should fill : a self -submitting bender 

 of the knee to that race that ever have been, and ever will 

 be, masters over him. 



If it had been the will of God, or consistent with great 

 nature's law, that this race should have lived peaceably 

 with the other races of men, when put on an equal foot- 

 ing with them, and had not repaid their kindness with 

 contempt and ingratitude, but had imitated their habits 

 of general sobriety and industry, they would long since 

 have been adopted into the family of nations, and have 

 arisen above the condition assigned them by an unerring 

 law of a power far above that of man. 



Let those who implicitly believe in the plain letter and 

 meaning of the revealed word of that being whom they 

 worship, inquire whether both English and American 

 abolitionists are not creating hosts of unbelievers, by 

 falsifying that word by their limited ideas of God's provi- 

 dence, in his wise provisions for, and care over, the de- 

 scendants of Ham. Let them inquire how it happens, 

 that guards of armed soldiery cannot prevent, in Europe, 

 violence and bloodshed among their "white slaves," while 

 here among the race of Canaan, no force is required to 

 make him quietly and faithfully obey and serve his mas- 

 ter, unless it is the will of that Being, that he should f ul- 



