Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-14


America. would suppose this wonderful migration to have
been consummated from five hundred thousand years be,
fore the discovery of America, 1t would have taken
many hundreds of families have populated this continent
within that period densey found be the time
of its discovery
Let no say that this wonderful emigration could not
have occurred without there having been memorial of it
preserved by poets historians. From the death Of Sa
yiour the reign of Tberus Cgsar about the close of
the fifteenth century, rivers of blood overlooked earth, and
chaos and night seemed have resumed their epe over the
world not until about the last aforementioned pc
rod when the of the mariners compass the extension OF
commerce. the discovery of America, the establishment OF the
press and reformation in religion, gave suffering humanity
room hope for something better than chains and slavery
blood and MURDER that the human mind capable Of max
ing faithful record Of any thing beyond the immediate sphere
of its action Learning "slumbering in the us Of classic
literature or locked up monkish cloisters-her
awed by power payzedby superstition, incompetent
to the task of faithful deneaon of the great events in
Europe much less describe the nermingng and the flow
of nation existences in Asia.
Unless the hand of God be in it, how is it, would ask,
that the Indians the only conquered people known to his
tory whom neither the pesuasons of religion the example
Of an improved condition around them, the terors superior
power the certainty of national extinction induce to
lose their distinctive character and to blend their identity with
that their conquerors Experience teaches that were
they change their habits appropriate to themselves the earth
and become agrcuturaists the whites would speedily inter-
marry with them, and thus they would become civil
led and happy race But no they the stnecked
and peculiar people, who together with the tribes of judah and
Benjamin. rejected the of the heocacy and scored
the ordinances of Heaven Like them they are doomed o
wanderings persecution, and When, under the pro-
of If
civilization shall have rolled the Pacific may be that the
remnants Of these people, returning Asia by the route they
came be restored the promse to the seats Of their
former glory and be permitted with the rest Of their brethren
to occupy the land of their fathers
These things may or may be. Who shall undertake
with oracuar authority pronounce upon them with certain
y With nothing but conjecture to guide US without line
of history single monument inscription memorial or radi-
ton direct steps, who shall with holiness to this
great Butt have long rodden holy ground
It for like take his stand by the pathway
of Gods provdence and say here passed the Persian or the
Mede here the Greek Barbarian here the Jew or Gente
dashed onward to exile destruction by Omnpotent dis
pleasure.
q Let not this weak, unknowing hand,
Presume Thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the land
On each Judge Thy foe"
The mysteries of this part of the subject better
mited the hands of those able and learned dvnes who
have devoted their lives the unraveng of the prophecies
and the study the will of God declared in his holy Word
Even with their aid, however, despair of seeing them
expounded. Like the ten thousand of moral and
physical world, which perpex every hand, from the
humbest blade of grass beneath feet to the spged hea
above US they will remain sealed book until that per-
feet day breaks upon vision when to God face
to face and all the secrets of time and eternity to be laid
open view, that the empire of perfect gratitude and re-
may be established and the boundaries Of love and
happiness indefinitely extended.
But needs prophetic ken, however, inspired vision
oreee that the Indians will disappear from every por
ton of country-ha the beautiful lines Of best
poet will be but and faithful picture of the whole Ae
rican continent:
9 Erewhile where yon gay spires their brightness rear
Trees waved, and the brown hunters shouts loud
Amid the forest and the bounding deer
Fled the gancng plume and the gaunt wolf yelled near
4 Look now abroad-ahother race has filled
\ These populous borders--wide the wood recedes
4 And towns shoot up, and fertile realms titled
The land is full OF haryests and green meads, &c.
BRYAST.
But who bid farewell the Indians without dropping
their memory In their dark forests deeds have
done such have rendered the of Hannibal and Cesar
immortal But they had bard to sing them, they had
heroes sleep plains undistngushed from then kindred
dust Their persisted with the grassy couch upon
which they bled And yet there some Indian
which the literature of the white will perpetuate the
latest postery Aslong magnanimy, bodness Of design,
eoquence in the council and bravery in the field shall
the admiration of men, the of Powhatan Pontiac,
King Phillip, Logan Red Jacket and Tecumseh will
| be forgotten
Perhaps the close Of the twelfth century days of
Gengs Khan the close of the sixth century the days of
MahomeL
They probably preceded by Cmmerians Tor
other giant Who having built the structures and edices
which much puzzle anquarans, destroyed each other in
war; partially destroyed by earthquakes and famine
leaving the remnants of their in Patagonia
Mclpom. IL, IL.
4 Eek, chap sc Isaiah, chap 65 Hosea, chap 5.
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