panied with a chill of the soul, which is nothing else but the voice of God in nature against it. The sympathies when called upon, in this respect, to coalesce with a creature of another cast and constitution, cry out and flee with affright, as if pursued by some horrid phantom of darkness; surely, God never intended any such jumbling up of his original work, as amalgamation proposes.
As to the natural manners of the negro race, there is between them and the other races, a deeply marked difference in relation to the risible faculty. The continual readiness of the African to burst into loud and boisterous fits of laughter, increasing even to yells, with but little or no cause to excite it, is a trait entirely peculiar to that people. This peculiarity, which so attaches to the very being of the negro race was equally possessed by Ham, the first negro, as appears in his treatment of the patriarch Noah, in the hour of his sleep, as we have already shown from Josephus.
There is another circumstance in the physical being of many of the African race, of which we almost decline to speak, and this is the strange and unaccountable circumstance of their near approach in their shapes, to that of the wild man of the woods, the ourang-outang.
If it was consistent in the Divine economy to produce a black race of men, as in the person of Ham, suited in their constitutional make, to people the hot regions of the earth, why need they, therefore, in so many instances, be formed so much like the animal above alluded to? Could not the African have been
