FORTUNES, OF THE NEGRO RACE.
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they are surrounded, and this is the influence of the customs and manners of the white population.
'Twas on Euphrate's shore, confusion blent,
To build the tower, just as the flood was spent;
Whose architects were negroes, black and brown,
And brought upon their work the Eternal's frown.
So in the western world, old Nimrod's friends
Are building up a tower for certain ends,
On which 'tis written — Abolitionism:
Meaning wild disorder, or any kind of schism.
But God, who sees their work, may laugh to scorn.
And blast the parent ere the child is born.
