SEVENTH SECTION.
Arguments and positions of abolitionists favoring a belief that the Scriptures recognize the negro man as being equal with the other races, in point of blood and otherwise, refuted — Mark of Cain — What it was — No black men or negroes before the flood except one — Difference between the secreting power of the blood of white and negro men — Evidences that the Supreme Being puts a higher estimate on white than on black, as colors or complexions — Consent to this difference by the blacks themselves, though incidentally given, according to the accounts of travelers in Africa — A curious argument of abolitionists in favor of negro equality replied to, with many other interesting matters.
In this division of the work we shall examine a passage of Scripture, upon which abolitionists build their theory of the negro's natural and mental equality with white men. This passage of Holy Writ, upon which hangs the claimed excellence of that race, is written in the book of Acts xvii, 26, as follows: "God hath made of one blood all nations of men, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times afore appointed, and the bounds of their habitations."
The arguments drawn from the Scripture by abolitionists, run thus:
In the veins of Adam, the first man and great fa- ther of all mankind, the blood of the negro race, as well as the blood of the other races, flowed free and full, on which account his equality with all other people is clearly made out, as they believe.
