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

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g. They had no fortified towns. They lived in movable
huts or Tents could advance retreat at pleasure and at
tackled their foes from places Of conceamen-lb AZ, 1877
A. They paid attention whatever TO agnculture.-lb Id
s. They scalped those they killed. precisely as The Indians
do preserved the caps trophies OF then prowess and he
who obtained the received the highest honorslb Ga
g. They had among them prophets or divners-Ib. 81.
T. All the Scyhian tribes had great repugnance to foreign
Each of them adhered the customs of their
foreahers-Ib. rs.
not believe that the Indians the descendants of the
Germans. In the first place, the Germans have ever been
noted for blue eyes, skin, red and light hair Second
y they had knowledge of the mariners compass or OF
vgaon had they the emoest idea OF there being land
to the west of them 1t is evident therefore, that in their
small open boats they would not have voluntarily attempted
to emgrae by water to traverse dashed by perpetual
storms Admitting that there instances Of their being
driven by the sudden rising of eastey wind yet
may suppose that they not provsoned for long
voyage, and accordingly persisted from famine, that
they swallowed up by the or, that the
wind sufficiently lued to admit of making Roadway
against it, steering towards the rising sum- they made for their
country with all possible dispatch. In the place. the
hypothesis that they emgrated by land, crossing Behring's
Straits will not bear think, the test of reason experience
To have done they would have had to twohids
Of that part of the globe. And what possible circumstances
imagine which could have induced free, brave, and
hardy people, whose lives dedicated war; travel in
straight line two-hirds Of the globe-o climb rugged
mountains and pass the broadcast rivers sauted every step
they took by sterile SOIL by ice and snow, and those forbid
ding features of hickenng in gloom and the fur
her they progressed On the other hand are not just
fled in pronouncing morally demonstrabe, that those
like Germans would have turned their faces towards the
nhospabe northeast but that in their emgraons they would
have done their descendants have done since taken
-.
sunny south
Judging from natural causes only might readily embrace
the third propositions and conclude that the first emgants
America of Of those Nomade tribes which
the vast plains OF Northern Asia. Independent the similarity
of between these tribes and the descendants Of those
emigrants now find them well imagine that
body of waters only hrtynine miles wide frozen for
greater part of the year, would be likely for any consider
bic period of tme to prove barrier TO the enterprise of
whose lives were devoted to and hunting; who,
having fixed habatons ties to attach them partc
lar district wandered up and down the earth led by the
chase the hope Of plumber There many circumstances
under which the mind conceive that such people, in
habng contiguous regions would have crossed that
firth. vanquhed party, pursued by superior force out
CASTS exe criminals, seeking hide their disgrace
remote country, to avoid the vengeance of their enemies
wild beasts escaping from shore the other and draw
ing after them the ambitious the hungry huntsman these
geher with many other for the migration of of
those people from the Asatc to the American continent, will
the rejecting reader But holding as do
the doctrine Of Ron, that the providence of the Almighty
has from all eternity appointed the establishments duration
and destruction of kingdoms and empires and drawing my
conclusions well from comparison of customs from
considerations which deem of weight and moment,
induced to believe that it is most probable that the Indians
are the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.
The institutions and Of the Indians which
pond with those Of the Jews such would be likely
survive the loss of their of earning and triumph
their degeneracy and barbaism distance and time
Their belief in the unity of God and that he spirit the
Giver of BREATH would live in the minds Of the people,
however ude alter their ceremonies of worship should have
been lost amidst war, blood, ndgence and ignorance II
natural that they should have their jubilee annually instead
Of every feh year, barbarians, like children always
anxious for the speedy of times Of mrth and
rejoicing Their solemn pause and motion of
wards the place Of their tribe, when absent may be
of the Jewish bow towards their Holy City when
making their suPpcatons Gods In fine all the
and which they retain resembling those of the
Jews, it will be found such could be otherwise
than pepeued from their frequent use and recurrence while
such they do not retain such people reapsng
babarsm would necessarily lose. There is strong evil
dence show that the Indians have faith in the mmorta-
y of the soul This might be expected of hem supposing
them be descendants Of the Jews since half the
people did believe in that doctrine and the other half had
a very confused idea about it'll
is well known that the sraetes Gods chosen people;
that he exacted obedience Of them corresponding his
ces and denounced against them by his prophets the
dreadful punshments they forsook his and
mandments that all the tribes carried into captivity by
kings Of Assynathe tribes which rcvoed under Jeoboam
FIRST and the tribes Of Judah and Benjamin after that
the restoration under Cyrus the latter tribes the only
which returned to Jerusalem that these had already forgot
ten many of their laws, and had to considerable
taken wives of the nations among which they bad soouned
| learn from the able the "New Family Bible
published by the Protestant Episcopal church, that the
evoed tribes (Which remained in captivity colonized
IN the mountainous parts Of Media, the northeast part Of
modern Persia. The country to the East what is
called Aghansan. learn from authentic account
Of tie Aghans that they have tradition that they de-
scented Of the Jews and whoever will take the trouble TO re
fer the authority, will be astonshed the correspondence
between their laws manners and CUSTOMS and those Of the
ancfnt Jews and the modern American Indians -
strikes that of the lost tribes following the chain
Of which skirt western Persia and the north Of All
ganan, first wandered into the latter country that there
mixing their blood with Of the Asiac tribes (a