tion; see his speech in the "Pennsylvania Freeman," August 6, 1840, No. 204, as follows: "There was one circumstance (he said) connected with the East (meaning the Mohammedan countries), that was peculiarly interesting, and that was, that there they knew of no distinction of color; they had no nobility of skin. White men, of the highest rank, married black women, and black men frequently occupied the highest social and official situations."
Oh, how happy a thing it would be, in the estimation of this man, would the Americans only pattern after the Mohammedan, in this thing, and thus confound the two colors, black and white, and sin against God, who made the difference, not to be mingled, but to be forever separate.
But as to the abolishment of negro slavery on such grounds as that, it can never be accomplished; for the history of the negro nations, from the earliest ages down to the present time, furnishes abundant proof that they have enslaved their own race as much, and far more cruelly, than either of the other races, the red man or the white.
To prove this, we adduce the following on that point: Strabo, an ancient historian, says that the Egyptians worked the machinery by which the waters of the Nile were elevated, in time of drought, to irrigate their lands, by slaves instead of oxen. To each of such machines, there were attached one hundred and fifty slaves of their own color. — Rollin, vol. i, p. 133.
The Carthagenians, a negro people in Africa, who at first were a colony from Phœnicia, or old Canaan,
