Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-07-28

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woman, on the other man, in good pres
crvohon. Another, the head OF a giant,
6 feetain diameter. Two affairs, most ele
gantly sculptured. One obelisk, II feet
in height. Four other monuments in dis
tinct places, one Of which is of circular
form, and upon Il small eminence formed
Of stones, apparently brought from the
river. In the centre between these four
monuments, there is a huge round stone,
which is wholly covered with hieroglyph-
les and inscriptions; meath the stone is two
human heads, covered nearly with yegeta-
ton, upon which the stone rests.
The above monuments are found about
5000 feet from the river Montague. The
time of Messrs. Catherwood and Stephens
being short, they were unable to make
more discoveries in that place but they
are satisfied that these monuments, &C.,
can be removed and taken to the L. S. Of
America, which is their intention; while
those Of Palehque are so far in the intcri
or, it would be impossible to remove them.
We also learn that the human figures, and
the ornaments which appear about them,
are~all similar to those at Palenque. In
fact, this we consider only as prelude to
what we shall expect from these distn-
guished persevering and scientific travel
lers.
We learn these gentlemen will continue
their journey, and afte: their visit TO Pa
lonque, will proceed to Mexico.
The N. Y. Star, (edlted by Mr.. Noah,
a Hebrew, offers the following comments
upon the above facts:
The people Of this country must be pre-
pared for extraordinary developements in
researches throughout Central America,
Peru and Mexico. We must as nation
rclinquiSh our unbclieving propensities, our
uniform practice Of doubling every thing
which we cannot exactly comprehend, and
believing all things to be hoax or a hum
bug excepting men or silver dollar, and
prepare ourselves by proper study and
discipline Of mind to know and to believe
that this new world, so caled-the discov-
cry Of a few centures-was settled by the
descendants of Peleg, and that the statues
above described, together with the affairs
and obelisks, the temples at Palenque, the
Hieroglyphcs, the aqueducts, viaductS and
military highways, are from the same peo-
pic who built Tyre, Babylon, the Tower,
the Pyramids and Carthage-the Phpni-
clans who driven down the Mediterrane-
an by Joshua, after they had circumnayi
gated Africa, visited Britain and the Wes-
tern Islands, found themselves nearly 1900
years ago in the Gulf OF Mexico, and
there made their acknowledgement over
the Peninsular to the Pacific Ocean and to
Cape Horn. Let our people be prepared
for something yet more starthng-the
downfall of the powerful people who built
those cities. Let them be prepared TO be-
lieve that 1900 years after the PhGnicians
had settled in America, the nine and a half
tribes Of Israel, after the capture OF Sama
ria, took their departure for san unknown
country" and after taking in their train
the Tartars and Chinese disposed to fol-
low, crossed at Behring's Straits and pas
scd down on the Pacific side until they
reached the lsthmus Of Darien, and there
came suddenly upon the Guarantees and
destroyed them a second time, and in the
new world and with them destroyed their
temples aud their Pagan affairs, as they
were ordered TO do by the Almighty wher-
ever they found them. Let our people
know that the red men spread over this
continent 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 con- lecture; but these dis
covcries will, in time, ripen into fixed and
positive evidence. This we know, that
400 years ago Columbus discovered the
Southern portion Of this continent, inhabi-
ted by mild and pcaceable race Of lndi-
ans-a hospitabIe, nodensive people, ami
able and kind, who were rich, and were
soon DESTROYED in the name of religion
the more savage tribes TO the North have
not been reached even to this day.
1t is absurd for a moment to cherish the
belief that the original MeXicans and Pc
ruvianS were the architects of those spIen-
did temples, obelisks and pyramids, and
that their chisels formed those gigantic stat
ucs Just discovered. All that we have of
Peruvian fine arts, such as sketches of hu-
man figures, are in the poorest imaginable
taste, and out Of all proportion and dlmen-
sions in drawing. The chart in Delatield's
work, and all other drawings prove this
indeed, their traditions have Il, that those
stone ruins of exact proportions, caps, pill
lars, bases, bas reliefs, metopes, and trl-
glyphs, such as we see this day at the
Parthcnon at Athens, were done by swan
derng masons," Of whom they know no.
thing. Who built them-who raised the
obellsks-who sculptured the statues 3
The hleroglyphics will tell the story that
this is not the new world We take it for