blem of the depravity and wickedness of the Jews, which, he insinuates, they could not change, because they had become so accustomed to do evil, any more than the Ethiopian could change the blackness of his person.
Thus we have, as we believe, made out that there was in the very outset of time, after the flood, a race of black people, who were made thus, not by climate or any other accident or contingency, but by the arbitrary power of God, to suit his own pleasure in carrying out his designs respecting the people of the globe. The genuine Cushite, says Richard Watson, was woolly headed. — Historical Dictionary, p. 282. This being a fact, proves the races of the other negro brothers to have been of the same character as a people, and yet for a certain reason, of which we shall speak hereafter, from the same people straight-haired black men were produced.
Possibly, by this time, it may be imagined that so much labor, bestowed to prove that an Ethiopian is black, is not called for, as all men know they are.
To this we reply, that the question is not whether an Ethiopian is black at the present time, but whether they were anciently so — as there are many who believe that the black nations of the earth have become thus by the force of circumstances, such as climate, food, manner of living, &c. Such persons hold that the people now called Africans were anciently the same as the people of Shem and Japheth, whatever their complexions were; but we think we have abundantly shown the entire contrary.
If this were not true, it would be impossible to un-
