believed that the crime of Ham did not consist alone of seeing his father in an improper manner, but rather of his own mother, the wife of Noah, and of violating her.
If this was so, how much more horrible, therefore, appears the character of Ham, and how much more deserving the curse, which was laid upon him and his race, of whom it was foreseen that they would be like this, their lewd ancestor.
All Egypt, the Sodomites, the Canaanite nations, with all the negro heathen countries, practiced these outrages upon good order (as stated by Moses, see Levit. xviii, 3, and chap. xx, 23), without shame or remorse, as if, indeed, they considered themselves as being no better than the cattle of the fields.
For these things, as foreseen, they were adjudged judicially, together with Ham, as an inferior race of men, and could never be elevated on account of their natures.
The baleful fire of unchaste amour rages through the negro's blood more fiercely than in the blood of any other people, inflaming their imaginations with corresponding images and ideas, on which account they are a people who are suspected of being but little acquainted with the virtue of chastity, and of regarding very little the marriage oath. In all the southern regions it is thus; promiscuous intercourse of the sexes every where prevails among the blacks. This state of things is attested to by abolitionists themselves, in relation to the negroes of the southern states.
For the proof of this, see "The Bible against Slav-
