The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

160 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
Nothing could place God in a more ridiculous light
than to suppose that He enacted a statute forbidding man
to commit an act which it was impossible for him to
commit, and then, as if to emphasize the absurdity, to
affix the death penalty
to the violation of the law.
Hence, if we accept the Bible as the expression of God's
will to man, we have no alternative than to
the very presence of
decide that
this Divine law forbidding man to
*'lie with a beast," or a woman "to lie down thereto,"
proves the existence of a beast which a man may
lie with
just as he would wnth a woman ;
or to which a woman, if
she desired carnal association with, might lie down to just
as she would to a man. Had this great law of God's been
obeyed, no mulatto would ever have '
'defiled" this beautiful
earth with his presence; a presence at once degrading
to man and loathsome to God; or had the just penalty
which God attached to the violation of
his law been
enforced, no mulatto would have lived to seethe light of
day: "And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be
put to death, and ye shall slay the beast. And if a
woman approach unto any beast and lie down thereto,
thou shalt kill the woman and the beast ;
they shall surely
be put to death ;
their blood shall be upon them. ' ' (Lev.
XX, 15-16.) Which is equivalent to God's saying to
man, "Have no superstitious fears that their blood will
be upon your hands, no conscientious scruples that their
blood will be upon your head; kill them for their shameless
violation of Divine law ; slay them in obedience to
Divine command—their blood shall be upon them. '
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