The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1849-02-03
The aTen Lost Tribes Of Israel.

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opinion that the "ten lost tribes" Of Is
rael were the originators Of the cities
whose ruins slrew Mexico and Central
America. He concludes thus from a
variety Of circumstances, and especial
~ from the fact that oil our tribes of In.
dams, bearing the strongest marks oil
Asiatic origin, are identified with the
lsraelites by the following religious
rites:
1. Their beliefin one God. 2. In
their computation Of time BY their Ger.
emonies OF the ne moon. 8. lE their
division Of the year into four seasons.
A.. In their erection Of a temple, hav-
ing an ark of the covenant, and also in
their erection Of altars. S. BY the
division of the nation into tribes, with
a chief or general sachem at their head.
g.. BY their laws of sacrifices, ablu.
tons, marriages, ceremonies in war
and in peace, prohibition of eating GER
tain things, by traditions, history, char
acler, appearance, affinity Of their Ian
guage to the Hebrew, and finally by
that everlasting covenant Of heirship
exhibited in a perpetual TRANSMISSION OF
its seal in their flesh, a custom only oil
late relinquished.
The Phenicians (%Canaanites) had
discovered the continent 500 years pre-
vious to the migration Of the lsraelites,
and were, it is assumed the builders OF
the pyramids of Mexico and Central
America, and Of Palenque, Cholula.
Otumba, Tlascala, and other cities, Of
which the ruins now excite our aston
ishment; and also the %introducers OF
hyerogIyphics, pIenisphenes, z%odiacs,
temples, military roads, viaducts and
bridges from Egypt, Tyre, Babylon
and Carthage. In the apocryphal book
of Esdrass, Of great antiquity, it is
said:
"Whereas, thou saves another
peaceabIe m%ultitude: these are the ten
tribes, which were carried away pris-
oners out of their " land, in the
time of Osea, whom Salmanazer, King
OF Assyria, led away captive, and he
carried them over the waters, so they
came ante an other land.
"They took this counsel among them
selves, tina. they would leave the multi.
tude of the heathen, and 60 into a fur
Their country, wherein never mankind
dwelt, :ha, they might there keep their
statutes, which they never kept in their
own land, (Assyria,) and there was a
great way to 60, namely, year and a
half"
According TO Major Noah's theory,
they marched towards the northeast
coast OF Asia-some remained in Tar
lary, and many went into China, where
they have been 1900 years, and are
numerous a, this day. The main body
crossed at Behring's Straits to our con.
%tinent, the more hardy keeping to the
north, Hudson's Bay and Greenland;
the more cultivated passed down on the
shores of the Pacific, through Califor-
MIA to Mexico, Central America, and
Peru, where they met their ancient enc.
mics the Canaani,es (Phenicians) whom
as once before, they dispossessed OF the
country. Furthermore it is contended
that they resided in California when the
ships Of Solomon made their three
years voyage, and furnished the gold OF
Ophir to build the temple; also, that they
are the settlers and proprietors Of Mex.
leo, Peru and the whole American con.
tinent, and have been here centuries
before the advent of Christianity, and
patiently avail, The promises Of redemp.
ton.
William Penn, in writing Of the In.
dams, said:
81 found them with like countenances
10 the Hebrew race. | consider these
people under a dark night, yet they be-
lieve in God and Immortality, without
the aid Of metaphysics. They reckon
by moons-they offer their first ripe
fruits--they have a kind of feast OF tab.
ernacles- they are said to lay their al.
tarS with twelve S~toneS--tnev mourn
a year., and observe the Mosaic law
with regard to separation"
These facts, with the opinions OF
Mex enzie, Barlram, Beltrame, Smith,
Penn, Menassah Ben Israel, the Earl
of Crawford, Lopez de Gamara, Acos-
ia, MaIvenGa, Major Long, Budinot,
and Catlin-al! eminent writer's and
travelers--go to prove that the item
lost tribes" were the %progenitors Of the
races and ideas found in the New
World, on its discovery by Columbus.
So says Major Noah.
@Letters have been received in this
city from Pittsburgh, to the effect that
the bills issued by the "ClTY OF PITTs.