them? But Abimelech did thus give them, together with the herds, and Abraham did thus receive them.
Had these servants, thus transferred, no relation to leave, no affinities of kindred, from whom they were parted by the inexorable Abimelech and Abraham, in whose ears the loud and heart-rending cries of sons, grandmothers and babes, sounded as sweet music? No doubt but they had; just as much as is often the case among the negro families of the south, in America and elsewhere, when they are sold or transferred; and yet Abraham took them — that righteous man of God and a holy prophet. What would the abolitionists have said, if they had been there? Oh, ye powers, how they would have spouted forth words of mighty eloquence, stamped with their feet and banged about with their fists, looked red in the face, stretched up their length in altitude, frowned, grinned and shook their heads, as they do now-a-days, when holding forth abolitionism — and particularly when paid for it by the year, some six or eight hundred dollars.
Respecting the servants of Abraham, especially those that were bought with his money, they were of the same race ; for the same reason as above, there being no other people at the time in old Canaan but the blacks of the country, for Abraham was a foreigner, a Chaldean from beyond the Euphrates, east. But after the lapse of some four or five hundred years, going down to the time of Moses, and the wars of Canaan, then these descendants of the blood of Abraham, besides the Jews, had become innumerable.
Abolitionists, in order to make sport of the opinion,
