New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-04

forming conclusions inconsistent with 'ns dosm's
e the chur ra sss s ssss from At. Their .ac
eessoTr II not always bsisversin me - par
ton Of the Virgin, we're ssaISex es s,'t;ms Iuorlsdse
b;cb he Me,cans possessed appeared nade1aas 20 jas
NV The belief IL at they came TO America oy ;ea me as
eoyery Of Behring's Straits, however farnnasd xeJ 20
IN Scnl,i,s and bridge Of ice in winter, and seat
hin boat In summer became strsghiway ready mons OF
.ceouptipg for the peoplipg Of America sacn
az wide difference OF pyteaI ssas ~ Az, soa
bs total es p4 ptary differences Of their languages were
enrely overlooked Bot al oHhoaoI pa 20 ume
fciept II has since been well beaten IN theory 6y vag
abond tribes Of wandering jews and h1riss o. @
Hindoos and Chnese Pursuing TINS 'rIH ., oarne
olloved that the aboriginal inhabitants OF Mexico came
The fabulous accounts of TIE old Fray Marco MIA,
.oneep the great KSS"% and e Tvsa
discovery of ruined edifcts 10 the same direction gave
color 10 this hypothesis Of migration In consequence
generally ACCEPTED Ike thou'ana ONE, iala cs
and complers who have since assumed TO write upon tne
aboriginal history of America. The Ignorance OF me
character Of the ruins on the River Gia ana elsewhere
New xico well Of the nature Of the country sei
which existed until very recently hts been enotne cause
of the perp@tustion Of this erroneous notion and accounts
forhe tac if not direct acceptance oy
Of the system Of representation prac;ioed by the MeAcan
some them have fallen into the error Of creing me
priesy explanations OF CERTAIN Me1'oae .io' go
suppoied 10 record the migration Of the AZtecs from
tome remote country which was. or course aiHss sup
posed to be Asia And whenihe road byw Of Behrhg
Straits was happily dscoveieo Psees sonsv Of cours.
10 the north Mexico The interpretations OF these MS
tOrics in eonsonahce win iOrcgone con
cusion end in later in earlier times have almost IN
veTsalIv been made from the emnently orthodox, but
utterly uHscie ntifc point of view which have
In the whole investigation of these questions NJ;
Souier continued there has been the great fundamental
error Of coDfoundDg the history Of aboriginal Mexico
wish that of the dominant nations which Corez found
in the Valley ofAnaiuac Their history no seyeF anew
The highest civilization of t6a. country existed be,
fore The 60 called Empire of hoEtezuma was founded Ard
what is generally called the history OF Mexico Is moth
In. more nor lees than the history OF the comparatively
habarous tribes who established Themselves in Aoahuac
scnctime in the eleventh century They came from the
Ionhwest of the City Of Mexico from the arec ono, o.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at the most If not more than 400
mesere in existence and may be, and have been inter.
petsd with scientific accuracy They inform u.s. IN brief
Of the advance ards the south ea OF bands OF bTbar
ous ndiens clothed in skins who after many pauses aud
adventures made the valley Of Anahuac Here they nd
the ruined monuments, already overgrown with vega
tic n Of anterior civilization; and monuments of the
PEOPLE who originated IT, but now reduced by civil wars
and civil feuds to stste Of weakness which renders them
able oppose the barbarOus people who invade their
terrtores But they REJECT upon the invaders and teach
them agriculture and many Of the mechanic arfs as wen
the principles and ceremonies OF their religion lbeee
less adopted by the conqueros who, never
tbeess modify ard leave the impress of their charac
ter upon all that they accept They give to Their national
policy which, in time, grows up, warSe turn, and to
their religious system bloody and ferocious cast In
short they build up nation nations, which were pre-
csely tlose found by Corez, and which have been so
often the subject of speculation and conjecture under the
denomination Of Mexicans Aztecs.
The MSS recording the mgratons here referred to, gar
bed and misinerpecd have gnoranty been supposed to
favor the hypothesis of migration of oborign. hexi-
cans of all cycles from far distant countries and from the
other continent Some Of them drawn the conquest,
and intorpoated by the early zeao have been made to
refer the Noahie food and TO the mystical confusion Of
tongues and dispersion Of nations on the plains Of Shinar
But there absolutely foundation not the shadow
of support for any Of these hypoheses or alleged inter
pre'atons in sny Of the authentic aboriginal MSS. of
MEXICO Neither they sustained 20 remotely by
the original traditions Of the Mexicans which rather refer
the origin Of the primitive well the secondary civil
cation Of the country to the South and East and a. Mr.
Bartlett ha. conclu,vey shown the monumental evidence
is altogether against the hypothesis Of migration from ths
North which originated in overstraned zeal and which
has been psrpetused through ignorance With pres
lights the advocacy of this hypothesis cannot be
gsdtd less absurd than avOwal Of belief in the
ploded notion that the Egyptians negroes and nea
descendants Of the unfortunate Ham.
Some other remarks made by various members e1
pressing full concurrence in the views Of MI Bartlett after
which the Society adjourned.