The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-06
For the Union.

npIoIN oE THE INDIANS.-RECALL OF THE JEWS.
Eo,e was not less startled in 1892 by the discovery of
The American continent than by finding IL to be oyepread
nv the Indian before this period lost to hso
- pbilosopbers and historians alike taken aback
Inv this announcement One Of the most prominent theo-
re 10 which the discovery gave rise was the suggestion
~ the probability Of their being descendants Of the "ost
Ten tribes of Isea" This theory which, so far my read
inc goes was first advanced by Grous, very popular
In the first settlers Of the colonies and furnished adj
dona impetus to the efforts made for their reclamation by
b and apostolic Eliot and his eoaborer and sue
cors influencing this branch Of benevoenee and human
it down TO the present But although II has been
fruitful and fyorte theme of discussion with dvnes and
bisntbropists during the entire period (say $40 years
- I down 10 Boudinots "ar in the West" and Jayiss
sourss before the New York Historical Society in 1918,
Lk tho onestion of their origin is far from being salts
factorily solved now as ever.
II ia not proposed to enter into this discussion at this
time far less to revive the opinions OF those who have
aked their learning and judgment on the topic but mere
y TO contribute suggestion respecting point OF historic
interest which on the assumed afinities between the
lew and Indian races equally applicable to the as to
be other of these very marked branches of the human FAM
Nv Biblical commentators prophecal events have
manifested disposition to hasten as itwere predictions
which are often obcurely and symbolcaly stated while
they have generally concurred in fixing definite value to
the leading sacred types and symbols One OF the most
undsputed of these interpretations relates to that feature in
the propheca chronology which makes the biblical period
of one day correspond with year of system In
the 9Th Daniel 49, a. it predicted that from the taking
away Of the "day sacrifice during which the people of
God shall be "rodden under foot till their recall and
the eeaning of the sanctuary which is apprehended
to signify period of spiritual and moral enlightenment
the character of the Messiah thousand and three
hundred days shall intervene This to be plain lam
guage Tactus informs that the conquest of Judea
t,,, l,a pjnrT N
TO- Having carried the city after long and bloody siege
during which he was driven of it, he finally sue
ceeded in taking its last stronghold the temple the
10th day of August whennot by design, but caprice it
seemsa Roman soldier set fire to il by burning arrow
by which it was reduced ashes and ruins Thus ended
the "daly sacrifice This the second temple--the
temple in which Christ personally had taught It was
never rebuilt, though once attempted by Julian.
On the assumption that the prediction in Daniel refers to
the first taking Of the daily sacrifice by the burning of the
temple under Nebuchadnezzar before Christ the pre-
dcton expired in e42 the beginning of the preaching of
John Eliot Of apostolic memory the American Indians
II the second period of taking away the daily sacrifice be
by the burning the second temple by Titus then the
prediction is unexhausted and will not expire till A. D.
1870 To what extent human concur with 9ipae in
uenc in this great moral event. those best Judge who
have devoted most attention and exhibited most wisdom
in discussing the subject design only make of the
facts observe that if it supposed that the spiritual and
moral deafness of heart of the Jews Indians is
made sensible by this call to repentance either nationally
Individuality the Importance and vitality of the call at this
time may be well judged Of Shall men wait till it be
proved that the Indians descendants of the Jews be-
fore efforts made to reclaim them Shall the Indian
priests and have hundreds of years further scope
to practise demonoogy, magic and wtchcrai before their
exposed If at last they proved be
descendants of the Jews to have pathological a
fnities with them whom will the blame of preach
ing the Gospel to them rest If they have the Jewish
blood in their VEINS in the most diluted quantity
cordng to the anes of races the fault will be still
pungenty Eots voice has been heard affirm
atvey this question 2l2 years Branard repeated this
call at exactly 100 years from its first Internationally
in I742. But in every view the aborgines more
particularly neighbors than the idoatrou of
the Orient?
If they want bread hunger and thirst often for any
lack of knowledge or of bodily comfort they certainly
to doors Shall we, like the Levite suffer
them to be wounded leave them TO the trust that good
Samarans from distant foreign lands win and bind
up their wounds or does not this duty belong peculiarly
to America II. r. S.
WAsHlSGToN Oct 2, 1854.