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Erelong none of them"By the blast of God

vivors are drooping and dying. not one of them-will be left alive. they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed."

"Tis well; soon, very soon, indeed, will all the black and bi-colored barbarians be silenced forever. "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;" and then shall all the swarthy races find rest, as, in reality, they all richly deserve to find rest, in the deep sleep of death eternal!

During the six months which immediately succeeded the failure of the Slaveholders' Rebellion, it is said that not less than forty thousand negroes died in the Southern States from the prostrating diseases and penury entailed upon them in consequence of their sheer inability to act the part of either intelligent or useful beings. Indeed, and better still, in the course of a speech which he recently delivered in New Haven, Connecticut, Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, (who, as a White Republican, a patriot, a statesman, is doing much, and doing well) stated that it was the general opinion, among the more enlightened and accurate observers of our country, that at least one million of negroes, have perished in the South since the dawn of the present decade! Verily, "the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord"-and more especially so in all cases of this kind-for taking away!

Japan, and China, and India, and Egypt, and Algiers, and Soodan, and Madagascar; in a word, all Asia and Africa, and the islands adjacent, like the mighty Americas, like Polynesia and Oceanica, have, as it were, but recently been discovered by those Heaven-guided branches of the Caucasian race through whose irresistible energy and perseverance the whole world (when it shall be occupied by the whites alone) is yet to be brought under

an unprecedentedly high and happy state of civiliza

tion.

In accordance with the pure and perfect fiat of Jehovah, all the black and bi-colored barbarians-and all who are either black or bi-colored are barbarians-must, at the exact time appointed for each race respectively, be utterly exterminated.

How nearly one of these death-doomed races has now arrived at its inglorious end, how fast the sands of its few remaining hour-glasses are running out, may be correctly inferred from the fact that the fossilizing substanees of the earth have already, in an especial manner, been newly compounded and prepared for the reception of every negro, and for every blood-relative of the negro, in the world!

CHAPTER VI.

A SCORE OF BIBLE LESSONS IN THE ARTS OF ANNIHILATING

EFFETE RACES.

Ask of me,

And I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance,
And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron;

Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

PSALM II., 8-9.

I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shalt drive them out before thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them.

EXODUS XXIII., 31-32.

Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. DEUTERONOMY XIV., 2.

If it be true, as is most firmly and conscientiously believed by the writer hereof, that the white races of mankind should no longer degrade themselves by any manner of association with either the black or the bi-colored races, the question arises, What are the means necessary to be taken, and when should they be taken, to render the contemplated separation final and complete ?

An old proverb will have it, that, "Where there's a will, there's a way." Let us first will that the thing which ought to be done, shall be done, and the way to do it will, no doubt, soon manifest itself. Besides, the writer flatters himself, that, if, in this most momentous of all mere worldly matters, he alone shall be successful in creating the requisite will, it may not be expecting too much of others, that they will at least assist to suggest the way. Labor, everywhere, especially if the labor be highly honorable and important, should be equitably apportioned, and if one man were to perform both of the

herculean tasks here referred to, he might, in a measure, perhaps, be forestalling one or more of his fellow-men in certain of their rightful prerogatives.

People professing great sanctity of character tell us that the Bible affords to man the only safe rule of faith and practice. Let us, therefore, carefully peruse that ancient tome, and, if possible, learn therefrom the particular policy which we ought to pursue toward the Ethiopians, against whom, according to Zephaniah, the sword of the Lord seems now to be so universally and so fatally drawn.

In the event that we, mere mortals that we are, should be found dealing with the reprobate and accursed blacks in just such manner as Almighty God himself is represented as having dealt with certain impious and hostile races of swarthy men, what possible exception could be taken to our conduct? Should we not, in some things at least, reverently and earnestly strive to imitate Him. who alone, in the true sense of words, is Good and Great -to think (however imperfectly on our part) to think as he thought, to speak as he spoke, and to do as he did? Yet, even in the case supposed, if any objection, reasonable or unreasonable, should be urged, there would certainly be the less occasion for cavil just in the proportion that the means adopted for the removal of the blacks should recede in harshness from the summary proceedings which are said to have been employed by the Deity for the removal of the ancient but corresponding and equally-doomed enemies of human progress.

Without here recommending, or meaning to recommend, the effective plan of separation and extermination which is reported to have been sanctioned by Heaven, thousands of years ago, as against certain unfavored and effete races, let us now proceed to consider some of the

more remarkable peculiarities and provisions of the plan itself.

The following biblical extracts which, for the sake of familiarity and simplicity, are here denominated Lessons, will fully explain the Hebrew account of God's method of ridding the world of those glaringly abortive and worthless races who, like the negroes, the Indians, and all the bi-colored fag-ends of mankind, have ceased to have a useful mission outside the superficies of this terrestrial ball.

HERE BEGINNETH THE FIRST LESSON.

(Numbers xxxiii., 50–56. )

"The Lord spake unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, when ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan, then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places; and ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given you the land to possess it. And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families; and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance; every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them, shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them."

HERE BEGINNETH THE SECOND LESSON.

(Deuteronomy vii., 1-6.)

"When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaan. ites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly de

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