uosity, from which they infer that the God of the human race never intended their enslavement. This position arises out of the circumstance of the Creator having given to man in Adam, the control, rule and government, over all the animal creation, in their subjugation ; making thereby all nations and all races of men lords alike in this particular, as is seen to have been the case. Gen. i, 26, and ix, 2. The first was said when God was about to make man, as in the first quotation. The second was said, as in the last quotation, after the flood, to Noah and his family.
As to the amount of the first scripture, it can have no application to the negro's case at all, in making them lords in that particular, equal with white men, over the animals of the earth, as during all the ages of the antediluvian world, there was not a negro on the earth, except Ham, the son of Noah.
As to the amount of the second scripture, in relation to the negro race, we do not in the least deny their equal lordship with white men, over all the animals of the globe; but we deny that their equality can be made out of premises so small. Because God has given to the race of Ham some equal privilege with the race of Japheth, is he, therefore, in all respects his equal? Though the negro race have an equal right to the elements of nature, as have all animals, yet this cannot, and does not, elevate the standard of their capacities.
The same God who gave to man, both black and white alike, the equal natural lordship of animals, has also, of his own good pleasure, placed the negro
