ery," No. 6, 1838, page 63, in a note, as follows: "To the female character among the black population, we cannot allude but with feelings of the bitterest shame. A similar condition of moral pollution and utter disregard of a pure and virtuous reputation, is to be found only without the pale of Christendom." The same is said by the Rev. James A. Thorne, as recorded in the pamphlet above alluded to, in a note, page 3, and was part of a set speech, delivered in New York, May, 1834, as follows: "I would not have you fail to understand (says Mr. Thorne) that this is a general evil. What I now say, I say from deliberate conviction of its truth, that the whole states are Sodoms, and almost every family is a brothel. I refer to the inmates of the kitchens, not to the whites."
But all this is told and published to the world by abolitionists, with the view of having it understood that this awful and ruinous propensity of the negroes, as well as the practice, is wholly owing to the institutions of slavery. This, however, is not true; for they have been always thus. From the very days of Ham, their father, down through their whole history, whether in a civilized or savage state, whether in the wilds of Africa, the islands of the sea, whether enslaved or free, it was always so with them.
That one passion conquers all, and will conquer every mortal endeavor to elevate the race much above their present level. There is but one power that can help them, and this is the power which rescued the man of Capernaum from the dominion of an "unclean devil," Luke iv, 33, that alone can
