It is said no nation of the earth has equalled the Jewish in the enslaving of negroes, except the negroes themselves; and examination will prove that the descendants of Ham and Canaan have, as God foresaw, justified by their conduct the doom which he pronounced against them.
But it has been contended that the people of God sinned in holding their fellow-creatures in bondage! Open your Bible, Christian, and read the commands of God as regards slavery--the laws that he made to govern the conduct of the master and the slave! But again--_we_ live under the glorious and new dispensation of Christ; and He came to establish God's will, and to confirm such laws as were to continue in existence, to destroy such rules as were not to govern our lives! When there was but one family upon the earth, a portion of the family was devoted to be slaves to others.

God made a covenant with Abraham: he included in it his slaves.

"He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money," are the words of Scripture.

A servant of Abraham says, "And the Lord has blessed my master greatly, and he is become great, and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses." The Lord has called himself the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

These holy men were slaveholders! The existence of slavery then, and the sanction of God on his own institution, is palpable from the time of the pronouncing of the curse, until the glorious advent of the Son of God.