plishment of the personal enslavement of Ham's race, is the position they hold in relation to the other two races. The white and red men of the first ages, as well as the same races now, being actually of a more noble and intellectual description of person and countenance, overawe the more imbecile and cringing negro, who, on this account, naturally looks up for protection and support to the more conservative and powerful races of Shem and Japheth. This being so, which all men must acknowledge, they have naturally and fortuitously become slaves, in myriads of instances, and thus have secured the same fate to their offspring in perpetuity. In this position there is nothing that savors of sin, as it is but the weaker seeking protection of the stronger — it is the natural operation of circumstances, not to be avoided without much trouble and resistance. How many freed blacks there are in this country, who have gone again to their former masters, having found it impossible to take as good care of themselves free, as when slaves. But there are other ways in the mutations of society, occasioned by the revolution of nations, in which, as it relates to individuals, there is no sin to be charged upon them, though the negro race fall into their hands as personal slaves, which is under the direction of that Eye who will secure the accomplishment of his decrees.
As it respects the cases of millions of families in this and all countries, they find, as children and heirs, that they are in possession of black slaves, without their knowledge and consent, the same as the rest of inherited estates and property. So it may be that, in
