It was with this question that we set out at the commencement of this section, which we proceed to answer as follows:
God, who made all things, and endowed all animated nature with the strange and unexplained power of propagation, superintended the formation of two of the sons of Noah, in the womb of their mother, in an extraordinary and supernatural manner, giving to these two children such forms of bodies, constitutions of natures, and complexions of skin, as suited his will. Those two sons were Japheth and Ham. Japheth He caused to be born white, differing from the color of his parents, while He caused Ham to be born black, a color still further removed from the red hue of his parents than was white, events and products wholly contrary to nature, in the particular of animal generation, as relates to the human race. It was, therefore, by the miraculous intervention of the Divine power that the black and white man have been produced, equally as much as was the creation of the color of the first man, the Creator giving him a complexion, arbitrarily, that pleased the Divine will.
This solution of the mystery of the origin of the negro's color, we trust, will be acceptable, as there appears in the wide field of conjecture and investigation, no other paths that lead to light but this. The mind, therefore, seems hemmed in, and driven to this conclusion by the arm of resistless necessity, referring the cause of the negro's color to the arbitrary will and wisdom of God, rather than to the feebler and ineffectual power of contingencies.
But lest the reader may not be as well satisfied as
