gry, decline to drink when thirsty, or scorn to repose when sleepy, as strive to repress our inborn and naturenurtured repugnance to the negro. To give free play to this repugnance is as much a matter of duty with us as it is to yield to any other innate and ever-healthful requirement, a duty, indeed, which God has made absolutely obligatory on us; and if we fail to obey His precepts in this regard, or in any other regard whatever, He will assuredly visit us with the severest possible condemnation.

If, now, we would learn to entertain a just and salutary abomination of Black, let us at once acquaint ourselves with its specific and distinguishing qualities, its nature and its functions; and in order to do this, it may be well for us (being beforehand provided with return tickets) to descend, for a few moments, to its home and its author

HELL AND THE DEVIL.

If we may believe those who have seriously written on the subject, among them the Italian monk Pinamonti, (whose statements, however, are unworthy of belief,) the outer walls of hell are composed of an impenetrably adamantine or other stony substance of the unvarying and sorely distressing color of ebony; and are, besides, "more than four thousand miles thick!" Within the dismal space thus impregnably walled up, there is, it is said, always perceptible one vast and never-ceasing storm of utter and tormenting darkness, where the confined smoke of burning brimstone has, from the very beginning of time, been so black and dense as to completely and forever hide from view, not only the ferocious fiends and serpents and other hideous monsters therein, but also even the fire itself, so that no ray of light, no

object in contrast with the horrible and overwhelming blackness, can ever afford to the eye of any one of the victims thereof a single moment's relief.

Let, therefore, all the hare-brained and wrong-doing champions of Black, (including the Black Congress,) and the whole gang of their sable and heaven-debarred protégés, beware!—for like will seek and attract its like, and the Prince of Darkness will have his own.

John Ford, the eminent English dramatist, has bequeathed to his fellow-men the following appalling picture of the infernal regions :

"There is a place, in a black and hollow vault,
Where day is never seen; there shines no sun,
But flaming horror of consuming fires ;
A lightless sulphur, choked with smoky fogs
Of an infected darkness; in this place
Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts
Of never-dying deaths; there damned souls
Roar without pity; there are gluttons fed
With toads and adders; there is burning oil
Poured down the drunkard's throat; the usurer
Is forced to sup with draughts of molten gold;
There is the murderer forever stabb'd,
Yet can he never die; there lies the wanton

On racks of burning steel, while in his soul

He feels the torment of his raging lust;

There stand those wretched things,

Who have dream'd out whole years in lawless sheets

And secret incests, cursing one another."

Of the same sinner-punishing place, John Milton speaks thus:

"A dungeon horrible on all sides round,

As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames

No light; but rather darkness visible,

Served only to discover sights of woe,

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace

And rest can never dwell; hope never comes
That comes to all; but tortures without end.
Such place eternal justice had prepared
For those rebellious; here their prison ordained
In utter darkness, and their portion set

As far removed from God and light of heaven,
As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole."

Prescott, in his "History of the Conquest of Mexico," Volume I., page 33, says:

“The Mexicans imagined three separate states of existence in the future life. The wicked, comprehending the greater part of mankind, were to expiate their sins in a place of everlasting darkness. Another class, with no other merit than that of having died of certain diseases, capriciously selected, were to enjoy a negative existence of indolent contentment. The highest place was reserved, as in most warlike nations, for the heroes who fell in battle, or in sacrifice. They passed at once into the presence of the Sun, whom they accompanied with songs and choral dances, in his bright progress through the heavens; and after some years, their spirits went to animate the clouds and singing birds of beautiful plumage, and to revel amidst the rich blossoms and odors of the gardens of paradise."

In one of his Sonnets, (CXLVII.,) Shakspeare complains that,

"I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

As if directly addressing the debased white aiders and abettors of the abandoned blacks, (as if addressing the Black Congress, for instance,) Fawcett very pertinently exclaims

"Your way is dark and leads to hell;
Why will you persevere ?

Can you in endless torments dwell,
Shut up in black despair?"

An old Hebrew author (1 Samuel ii., 9) warns the blacks and their white accomplices in deviltry, that,

"The wicked shall be silent in darkness."

Another writer has foretold that all the black and would-be-black reprobates shall be

"Consigned to a fiery place of punishment in perpetual night."

Again, in reference to the God-forsaken creatures of whom we are now speaking, Heaven's immutable decree has gone forth, that,

"Nameless in dark oblivion they must dwell."

One of the authors of the Catholic Bible (Tobias IV., ii.) tells us that,

"Alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness."

From our very earliest childhood, as is well and generally known, we are accustomed to hear both the "The Black Man" and "The Prince of Darkness" used as common designations for the devil.

Draper, in his "Intellectual Development of Europe,” page 29, says:

"In the interior of the solid earth, or perhaps on the other side of its plane-under world as it was well termed is the realm of Pluto, the region of Night. From the midst of his dominion, that divinity, crowned with a diadem of ebony, and seated on a throne framed out of massive darkness, looks into the infinite abyss beyond, invisible himself to mortal eyes, but made known by the nocturnal thunder which is his weapon."

Worcester, next to Webster the greatest American lexicographer, in his "Chart of Mythology," tells us that, "Pluto, the god of the infernal regions, of death and funerals, is represented sitting on an ebony throne."

Again, in his "Chart of Mythology," Worcester tells us-and this is worthy of the attention of those foolish

persons who, on certain sad occasions, and for long periods, clothe themselves in the disgusting habiliments of mourning-that,

"The Furies are represented of grim and frightful aspect, with serpents entwined about their heads instead of hair; their garments black and bloody; attended by Terror, Paleness, and Death, with Care, Sorrow, Disease, and Famine, in their train.”

Under the incitement of virtuous indignation, one of our patriotic poets has recently castigated, in a most thorough manner, the treason and rebellion of

'Jeff. Davis, our blackest foe, of devilish origin."

Although it has already been suggested, yet here it may be more definitely premised, that Blackness and Darkness, as representing the opposites of White and Light, are but one and the same thing. On the right hand, White and Light are emanations from Heaven; on the left hand, Blackness and Darkness are emanations from hell. Further on, in the next succeeding chapter, we shall have occasion to revert to this subject again. Here let it suffice that we expose, in part, the horrible aspects and infamous characteristics of Black, as it is generally seen, like a shapeless and gigantic monster, prowling about the earth under the guise of

NIGHT-DARKNESS.

In the ninth book of his "Odyssey," Homer, as translated by Pope, speaks of

"The black palace of eternal night,

The dolesome realms of darkness and of death.”

Shakspeare, in his poem entitled "The Rape of Lucrece," says,

"Solemn night, with slow sad gait descended

To ugly hell; when lo, the blushing morrow
Sends light to all fair eyes that light will borrow."