American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-02-26

ceived for lands let, 81, S37 for products of hor
ticulture, sis, 426.69 in cash annmties. The
Senocas have public property valued at $l3,
1895, and about $50, 900 due to individuals
under treaty appraisements,
These notices will be sufficient to show, thai
the statistical tables and the observations
transmitting them abound in subjects of inter
esting and practical reflection, and invest with
much force the authors suggestion that the
race be admitted to citizenship. Full as they
are, they constitute, however, but a part OF
the interest, which attaches to the historical
and antiquarian materials, embodied in the
supplemental portions of the report. These
materials carry the reader back through the
era of the Iroquois confederacy, to their pre-
decessors, and discuss the broad question,
namely, "what tribes and races of the family
of man first set foet in the area now called
New Yerk?" Several eras and dynasties of
the aborigines are shown TO have existed in
North America, covering the western parts OF
the state. These eras the author denotes by
old traditions, by ancient Notifications, and by
objects of art, dsiriterred from the soil, some
of which are figured and described in the re-
port A similar mode of proof denotes the
several eras of the fret European intercourse
with the native tribes, and in this manner, the
"old foIts' and remains of the western parts
of this state, which have excited SO much Gu
rioslty, fall into their proper eras, and some
thing is done, to dsspate historical mystery.
1t is indeed to be wished that examinations of
this kind should be fully carried out, and ex-
tended to all parts of the state. 1t is sub
ject Of which, the interest and capacity to
Judge, comes home to every person; and we
think the report if generally circulated, will
have tendency to impart moral interest to
the scenes and localities brought into discus
sion, which will more than compensate our re-
publican citizens for the absence, SO loudly
complained of by European visitors, of old
castles and towers, and diapidated palaces,
where vice has ruled, and virtue sighed"
The CLEANS Of the accent general history
and cosmogony of the aborigines, presented,
and their passages Of their wars with monsters
and giants, their theories OF necromancy and
witchcraft, and the symbolic use made by q
sacred fire in their religious ceremonies, bear
the impress of an oriental rather than west
srn origin. This portion of the report opens
with graphic and glowing sketch of the lro'
quois contederacy in its best days. There ID
also chapter on the principle of the lroquoiS
government, "a theme which it has been diff
ficult heretofore, to comprehend. 1t is shewn
to have been pure republic, notwithstanding
the fixed laws of the descent of chiefs. But
the most curious feature of their system is the
ToLEMIo BOND, by which the eight clans, III
each tribe, are bound together, if we may sc
express it, by cord of forty eight ties.
| The inquiries on their archaeology generally
denote research, and aptitude and familiarity
with the subject 1t is believed that no body o
information of equal value, on the points dis
cussed, has ever been laid before Legislative
body in America.
We cannot dismiss this report, and brie
synopsis, without stating the impression which
its perusal has made, that the author has
evinced peculiar aptitude for his species of re-
search, and with energy and clearness in dis
eliminating the various archaeological evidenc'
es brought forwagd, and in grouping and apply.
ing them. And the report, wherever it is atten.
lively read must awaken deep and renewed
interest in the ancient, and historically enig.
NAUTICAL race, to whom it is devoted.-.4tban.
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