own blood and brethren was at all prevalent among them, in holding the poor Hebrews in perpetual bondage, contrary to the law on that very subject made and provided. To make it clear that the reproof of Isaiah on that occasion, and in those passages, related wholly, solely and exclusively, to abused and enslaved Hebrews and their masters, we have only to observe, that the last clause of the seventh verse of the reproof, is confined to Hebrews, in the use of the terms, "thine own flesh." The whole passage reads as follows — see Isaiah lviii, 7: "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh."
Surely, the negroes of Canaan, or of any other country, were not considered by Isaiah, to be of the same flesh with that of the Jews, as they are never called in the Scriptures, the brethren of the Hebrews, their kindred, their own flesh, &;c., but always heathen. Respecting the flesh of the negro race, Ezekiel xxiii, 20, says that it was like the flesh of Asses, and yet abolitionists say that negro flesh is as good as their flesh is, and every way equal; we wish them much joy of their relations.
The Canaanites, therefore, who were among the Jews as perpetual bondmen, were not the persons alluded to in that reproof of Isaiah, and those who ought to have been set free by their Hebrew masters.
But, if the reader is not yet satisfied that we are right in the above construction and application in
