warrior had made a conquest of Tyre, which the reader will not forget was a Canaanitish city and kingdom, he reduced all the lower orders of the people to a state of slavery, men, women, and children, amounting to 30,000 at one time, who were sold on the spot to whosoever would buy them. And besides this, when Artaxerxes-Ochus destroyed Zidon, another city of old Canaan, and had reduced the captives to be sold as slaves, the Jews, as Joel had foretold, were present, and bought as many as they could, and sold them again to the Sabeans, a people dwelling far to the east of old Phœnicia or Palestine, in Arabia-deserta, bordering on the sea of Arabia, which is an arm or bay of the Indian ocean, a distance of full 600 miles from Zidonia, their native country, among which people they are slaves to this day, as also in both Indies, Hindostan, and in all Asia.
Here we see the Jews, by the direct providence of God, in the fulfillment of the prophesy of Joel, as well as in accordance with the law of Moses, and the curse of Noah, speculating in the purchase and sale of vast droves of the negroes of Tyre and Zidon, as is often done, now-a-days, with the same race of people in the United States, and parts of Europe, notwithstanding the recent agreement among the powers of Christendom, making it piracy to do so; so careful is the Divine veracity of its own honor.
Is this account, as above given, from the Holy Scriptures, respecting the buying and selling of the progeny of Ham by the Jews, to be looked upon as "a mere silent entry," made by the prophet Joel, of the wicked deeds and acts of those Jews, as abolition-
