The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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predecessor. This indicates the relative value of the
**cattle" and "beasts;" and that the "beasts" were far
more valuable than the "cattle." We can readily
understand that this would be so, when we realize
that the "cattle" were their domestic quadrupeds, and
that their "beasts" were negroes. Previous to the
late sectional war in the United States, the neg-roes in
the Southern States were far more valuable than the
domestic quadrupeds in those States. A sheep was
worth say $2.00; a cow or an ox $25.00; a horse $100.00.
But an adult neg-ro was worth from $1,000.00 to
$1,500.00. Hence, it was far more injurious to the people
of the South to be deprived of their neg-roes than
it would have been to deprive them of their domestic
quadrupeds. The same was doubtless true of the
Eg'yptians of Pharaoh's day. Profane history and
science teach that the Eg'yptians owned immense
numbers of neg-roes. The neg-ro is fig-ured on the
Eg-yptian monuments of 4,000 years ag-o. (2) The
"cattle" of the Eg'yptians were afflicted with "a very
grievous murrain," while the "beasts" were afflicted
with "boils breaking forth into blains," just as the
men of Egypt were. This is significant. (3) The
Egyptians, who were masters of the country, are
accredited with owning both "cattle" and "beasts,"
while the Israelites, who were in bondage
Egyptians, are accredited with owning
uot "beasts." (See Ex. x, 9, 24, 25; Ex. xii, 38.)
to -the
"cattle" but