The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-03-17
The Ten Lost Tribes Of Israel.

Il he Aen LOST IrlDeS OIL lSrael.
The following is from the pen of Majo
Noah, In relation TO the present location o
the len lost tribes OF the childten Of Israel
VIII, at the present time, be read with in
i terest:
The subject, always one Of interest, ha
occupied The research of the most eminen
divines and historians. Many years ago
DR.. Boudinot, of New Jersey, published I
work OF great interest, called the Star o
the West in which he attempted to prove
mat the North American Indians were
the descendants Of the lost tribes. The
work was read and laid aside with incre
culiiy. Forty years, however, have devel
oPed many circumstances and discoveries
tending TO confirm the opinion OF DR.
boudinot, and The work though not out o.
pnni, IS one which. to the curious, would
amply repay perusal. We have never
doubted the TACT. Nine and half tribe;
were carried captive from Samaria; two aDt
hali--Judab, Benjamin and half Menas
seh--re mained in Judea or in the Jordanit
cl!lrs and The latter constitutes the eight
millions of the existing nation. All that
we know Of the route taken is from the sec
ond Esdras. an apochryphal book, but one Of
great antiquity, aud entitled TO respect
The notice reads thus:
Whereas, thou sawest another peaceable
multitude these are the tribes which were
carried away prisoners out Of their own
land, in the time Of 0sea whom Salamanzer,
hlng OF ASsyria, led away captive and car
rled them over the waters, SO they came in
to another land.
They took this counsel among themselves,
that they would leave the multitude of the
.sealhens and so into farther country,
wherein makind never dwelt, thai they
might keep their statutes (Assyria,) and
there was great way to go, a year and a
half l-a
They marched towards the north east OF
Asia Some remained in Tartary, and many
went into China, where they have been $500
years, and are numerous at this day. The
main body crossed Behring's Straits to our
continent, the more hardy keeping 10 the
north, Hudsons Bay, Greenland the more
cultivated pass down the shore of the Pa
cific, through California to Central America
and Peru; and there they met their old en-
emy, the Phenicians, lCanaanites,) who.
having discovered the country 800 years
previously, had formed colonies, built the
Petenque, with pylamids like those they
had erected in Egypt, at Cholulu, Otamoa,
Paxca, Miltan, Talscala, together with HE
roglyphcs, plenciphenns, vodiacs, TEMPLES
military roads, aqueducts, viaducts, bridges
of great grandeur, existing at this day, and
proving that they were built and settled by
those who had built Tyre, Babylon and
Carthage. When the tribes of Israel en-
countered their old enemy in the old world,
they fell upon them and destroyed them a
second time and when Columbus discov-
cred the country, he found the various tribes
Of Indians whose origin was unknown
These are the missing tribes; and this is
the opinion of Ads, Heckwelger, Cbarlioix,
Mckenzie, Bertram, Belirsne, Smith, Peen,
Mrnassah Ben Israel, the Earl of Crawford,
Lopez de Gamarra, Acosta, Malvenda, Maj.
Long, Boudinot, ard all eminent writers and
travellers.
We trace the march of the tribes through
Asia 10 this continent. After two Thousand
years we find the red man of America bea r
ing the strongest marks OF Asiatic origin and
divided into three hundred different lions,
remarkable for their intellectual superiori-
ty, to be the descendants of the lost tribes,
and identify by the following religious rites
peculiar to all our Indians, and to the Is
raeites:
list. Their belief in God.
ed. Ia their com mputation of time by the
ceremonies of the new moon.
Sd. In thedivision of the year into four
seasons.
'4th In the erection of a temple-havins5
an ark Of the covenant; and also in their
erection of alters.
'5lh, By the division Of nations into
tribes, with chief or general sachem at
their head
by their laws Of sacrifices, absolutions.
marriages, ceremonies in war and in peace,
prohibition OF eating certain things by tradi-
lion, history, character, appearance, affinity
of their language to the Heorew, and final
ly, by the everlasting covenant OF heirship,
exhibited i a perpetual transmission of lis
seal in their flesh. custom only of late re-
linquished. All The Indians on the Amerl-
can continent, from Labrador to Cape Horn,
are the descendants of the tribes which Es-
dras saws went into farther country