they had accomplished the end designed by God, they both ceased, and at one and the same time. Mizraim settled what is now called Egypt. He embalmed his dead. Where did he get the idea from? No nation or people had ever done it before; none have done it since. It was a very difficult thing to accomplish, to preserve human bodies after death; and to preserve them to last for thousands of years, was still more difficult. How did Mizraim come to a knowledge of the ingredients to be used, and how to use them? Yet he did it, and did it at once. The only satisfactory answer to these questions, is, that God _inspired him_. Then, it is God's testimony, vindicating _his son Ham_ from the aspersions of men--that he was a negro, or the father of negroes. Ye learned men of this age--you who have contributed, by your learned efforts, and by your noble but mistaken philanthropy, innocently, honestly and sincerely as they were made, but wrongfully done--to fix and fasten on Ham this gross slander, that he is the father of the present race of negroes, must reexamine your grounds for so believing heretofore, and now set yourselves right. God's Bible is against your views; concurrent history is against them: the existing race of Ham is against them: _God's living testimony_ is against them, in the _dead_ children of Mizraim, embalmed ever since the flood, but now brought forth into the light of day, and testifying for Ham, that he and his descendants were and yet are of the white race. You must now come forth and abandon your fortress of _assumptions_, for _here that citadel falls; for, if Ham is not the father of the negro_ (which is shown _to be an impossibility_) then the negro came out of the ark, _and as we now find him_; and if he came out of the ark, _then he must have been in the ark_; and if he was in the ark, which, by the logic of facts, _we know_ he was--now let us read the Bible, the divine record and see whether or not the negro has a soul. It reads thus: "When the long-suffering of God waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is _eight souls_, were saved;" the negro being in the ark, was not one of those eight souls, and consequently he has _no soul to be saved_--the Bible and God's inspiration being judge. Carping is vain, against God. His order _will stand_, whether pleasing or displeasing to any on earth. But God only promised to _save eight_--Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their wives. These _had souls_, as the apostle (Peter) testifies, and _all that were in the ark that did have souls. The negro was in the ark; and God thus testifies that he has no soul_.