somewhere in the vast womb of eternal night, outside, and beyond the whole universe of God, so far off from the pale of creation, and the space occupied now by the great family of suns and worlds, which may yet be taken up by succeeding creations to all eternity, is spoken of as being "the blackness of darkness;" Jude 13. In second Peter, the same place, hell, is again referred to as being a place of darkness, where the angels, who kept not their first estate, are bound in chains (or depths) of darkness, and are reserved to judgment.
To the opinion of the superiority of white over black, the negroes themselves subscribe in the fact of their always and every where insisting that they ought to be called colored people, and not a black people, as they esteem it extremely degrading to be called negroes, or black people.
But, says one, this kind of involuntary confession of the blacks, respecting the disagreeableness of their color, arises out of their being in countries where all power, influence, wealth, rule, government, &c., are in the hands of the whites; but turn the tables, and step over to Africa, if you please, where you will find the negro man in his native glory, walking abroad in his primeval independence, having not a dream in the visions of his soul that a black skin is not a handsome and becoming complexion. We will step over to Africa, as the thing is easily done, and see whether it is really so, by making inquiries of travelers, who have made themselves familiar with their manners and customs, their loves and antipathies.
As being pertinent to this subject, we shall make a
