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descendants ofPeleg, and that the Statues y
Dove described, together with the affairs. ODE
lisks, the temples at Palenque, the Hieroulv
phics, the aqueducts, viaducts and militar,
highways, are from the same people who
built Tyre, Babylon, the Tower, the Pyra
mlds and Carthage-the Pheniciansi who
driven down the Mediterranean by Joshua, af
Ter they had circumnavigated Africa, visited
Britain and the Western Islands, found them
selves nearly four thousand years ago in the
| Gulf of Mexico, and there made their settle
ments-spread over the Peninsula to the Pa
CHIC ocean and to Cape Horn. Let our peo-
pie be prepared for something yet more start
Ing-the downfall of the powerful people who
built those cities. Let them be prepared to
believe that 1900 years after the Phoenicians
had settled In America, the nine and half
tribes of Israel, latter the capture of Samaria,
took their departure for San unknown coun-
try" and after taking in their train the Tartars
and Chinese disposed to follow, crossing at
Behring's Strait and passed down on the Pa
chic side until they reached the 1sthmus of
Darien, and there they came suddenly upon
the Canaanites and destroyed them a second
time, and in the new world and with them de-
stroyed their temples and their Pagan affairs,
as they were ordered to do by the Almighty
wherever they found them. Let our people
know that the red men spread over this CONT
nent are the descendants of what was called
the lost tribes, who bear at this day, the proofs
In their religion, language and ceremonies, of
their early origin.
SO far all is conjecture; but these discover
les Will, In time, ripen into fixed and positive
evidence. This we know that 400 years auo
Columbus discovered the Southern portion of
this continent, inhabited by mild and peac-
able race of Indians hospitable, inolien-
slve people, amiable and kind, who were
rich, and were soon destroyed in the name of
rellglon-the more savage tribes to the North
have not been reached even at this day.
II is absurd for moment to cherish the be-
lief that the original Mcxicans and Peruyi-
ans were the architects of those splendid tenn
pies, obelisks and pyramids, and that their
cnlsseis formed those gigantic statues just
discovered. All that we have of Peruvian
line arts, such as sketches of human hpures,
are IN the poorest imaginable taste, and out
oil all proportion and dimensions i'm drawino.
The chart in Delafield's work, and all other
drawings prove this--indeed, their traditions
nave 1t, and those stone ruins of exact pro-
portions, caps, pillars, bases, has reliefs, me-
topes, and triglyphs, such as we see this day
AT the Parthenon at Athens, were done by |
wandering masons," of whom they know
nothing. Who built them-who raised the
obellsks-who sculptured the statues The
hleroglyphics will tell the story that this is
NOT the new world. We take it for granted
now, that commissions will soon be issued by
the French and other European governments
TO explore those countries, savans will soon
be abroad-the yachts of the wealthy will
soon be directed towards the Gulph of Mexi-
co; and Thebes and Memphis will, for time.
cease to attract the traveller and the tourist.
We rejoice, however, that to the u. S. will
the merit be ascribed of setting on foot these
discoveries. They are only the beginning
the mere dawn of those great events which
soon are to burst upon us with wonderful
light.