sinful to enslave the negro race, providing it is done in a tender, fatherly and thoughtful manner, having the fear of God before our eyes, in a transaction of the kind, doing no violence to the bodies or minds of such persons as slaves or servants, beyond proper and necessary correction.
This is as easily accomplished as is the government of a family, in the ordinary sense of the word, or the good men of old could not have done it, as they most assuredly did, upon which we shall treat in due order. It is the abuses of the institution of negro slavery, which have recently, by the Divine Providence, aroused the sympathies of men, but not the principle itself, as God cannot resist his own determinations.
There is no man except infidels, and those who are tinctured with principles of the infidel character, who for a moment doubts the judicial decision of God in relation to murderers, as announced to Noah, and all mankind through him. This act of God is found on the page of the Divine record, in the same chapter with the act respecting the negro race, namely, the ixth, at the 5th and 6th verses, as follows: "And surely your blood of your lives will I require * * * at the hand of man: at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood (by murder), by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man!"
This judicial act was announced, not to the ears of the half civilized and barbarous Jews, as some men speak, when the law of Moses was given, but to the wise and enlightened house of Noah, about
