account shows these views to be correct, whether the negro entered the ark by sevens or only a pair. For, when we read further, that they now were all of one speech and one language, they proposed, besides the tower, to build them a city, where their power could be _concentrated_; and if this were accomplished, and they kept together, and acting in _concert_, under such a man as the Bible shows Nimrod to have been, it would be impossible for Noah's descendants to _subdue_ the earth, as God had charged they should do. It was, therefore, to prevent this _concentration_ of power and numbers, that God confounded their language, broke them into bands, overthrew their tower, stopped the building of their city, and scattered or dispersed them over the earth. Let us now ask: Was not their tower an _intended_ offense to, and defiance of, God? Most certainly. If not, why did God destroy it? Did God ever, _before_ or _after_, destroy any _other_ tower of the many built about this time, or in any subsequent age of the world, made by any _other_ people? No. Why did he not destroy the towers, obelisks and pyramids, built by Mizraim and his descendants, on the banks of the Nile? And why prevent _them_ from building a city, but for the purpose of destroying concentrated power, to the injury of Noah's children, and their _right_ from God to rule the earth? The Bible nowhere tells us where any of the beasts of earth went at any time: hence, the negro being one, it says not one word about where any of them went. But we are at no loss to find them, when we know their habits. The negro, we know from his habits, when unrestrained, never inhabits mountainous districts or countries; and, therefore, we readily find him in the level Plain of Shinar. The whole facts narrated in the Bible, of what was _said_ and _done_, go to show that the positions here assumed, warrant the correctness of the conclusion that the main body of these people were negroes, subdued by and under the rule and direction of Nimrod; that the language used by them, why they would build them a tower, shows they were daily practicing the _same sin_ that caused God to destroy the earth by a flood; and that, actuated by the fear of a similar fate, springing from a _like cause_, they hoped to avoid it by a tower, which should reach heaven; that their confusion and dispersion, and the stopping of the building of _their_ city by God--all, all go to show what sort of people they were, and what sin it was that caused God to deal with them so _totally_ different from his treatment of _any other_ people. The very language used by them, on the occasion, goes plainly to prove that those Babel-builders knew that they were _but beasts_, and knew what the effect of that sin would be, that was being committed daily. They knew it was the very _nature_ of beasts to be scattered over the earth, and that they had _no name_ (from God, as Adam had); therefore they said, "one to another, let us make brick, and let us