The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-20
ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN TRIBES,

This topic is ably handled, with the lights of history
and ethnology, in the Chevaer Bunsons recent great
work "The Philosophy of Universal History copy Of
which before The following views expressed
by him respecting the elaborate collections aud dgsh
of the materials published, under the authority of Con
gess on the subject of the Indian tribes We the more
readily extract them coincidng with the general view
have heretofore published the subject of this vau
BILE work Chevaer Bupson has been several years Pus
sian minister at the court Of London;
al had written FAR in July, ls47. no. then
that the Sd March Of the year act had passed The
Congress OF the United States Of America authorizing the
publication great national work Indian tribes Of
the territory Of that republic In 1850 the first volume Of
that gigantic work appeared, and third volume
printed in 1885, has been transmitted to by the bera
Of that government .
cit may fairly be said that by this great national and
Christian undertaking which realizes the aspirations Of
President Jefferson and carries their full ths
sbors and efforts OF Secretary Of the Treasury the Hon
Albert GallatnS the government OF the United States has
done for the antiquities and language OF foreign race
than European government has hitherto done for the
language Of their ancestors Certainly scarcely any single
has done for collecting and dges,ng the maeh
than Mr.. Schoolcra, whose observations and inqu-
res form the most important part Of that publication TIE
whole work is conceived 10 true spirit OF phanthropb
and breathes feeling Of brotherhood towards the ndsS
without doubt the most important portopj occupies
place in the second and third Volumes and may hope
completed in the OF the following volumes. B
the linguistic data before US, combined with the fadot
and Customs and particularly with the system Of pcO,
mneone writing, (6rst revealed in this work. enable
say that the Asiao origin OF all these tribes is @
proved the unity OF family among themselves Accord
ing to system, the Indian languages only beh DE-
posite Of North Turanian idiom.
Indeed in addition to the evidence already coeeiedH
Pcbard the passage Of tribes from Siberia (where @
find OF the pictorial writing) the northern
islands placed beyond all doubt by the work 10 question
Tho Mongalian peculiarly Of the skull the type Of at
hunter, the Sbsmatc excitement which leads by means
fasting and dreams, into visionary csirvoyspt state
and the fundamental religious views and symbols tsmog
which the tortoise Is not TO be forgotten vol O. Ho
bring us back to primitive TarAnism.
As To the languages themselves, there Is psu
arity In them which may not easily be explained By our The
DRY Of the second formation and fro
lation.
1.-THE unity Of the grammatical type long ago I"
knowiedged but have Gas think the evidence
Of the material historical physical unity. The Indian mo
has not only worked in type, but with material a
that Turan;an We may hope TO receive In ieS
years. from these energetic efforts Of the government and CIV
zcns Of the United States complete linguistic Thssau"
OF Indian languages and this deserves the grpteuN
knovedgmep most Of these tribes in spite Of the renew
ing power Of Christianity, win become entirely extinct
(yol. 2, p.lll)