Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-01-10
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the author Of tho Green Aountan Boye'
Nav Martin Locke AmsdeD etc. we
mad brief alusion 10 tho publication at tho
tiue, then expecting to call attention 10 ]"
agln very soon but have been compelled to
d fer giving our readers the pleasure OF more
extended nctco. until now. Hon. j. J. Ihomp-
tol. whose lame will be suggested to every
\ o. moutar and 10 vide circle Of readers else
where ia this country, and even in Europe as
tho "Authot OF the Green Mountain Boys'
Nav Martin Locke Amsden etc, Is 50
W 3ll known to the re lders Of the FIREMAN as TO
need no introduction from US, having puollshea
the paper and presided over its columns l2f
m any years and not yet having ceased To con-
tribute to its pages, as bis familiar Initials
occasionally witness lls chief literary iams,
however, does not rest upon his writings Us al
editor, although he made the FREEMAN as
tlngushed for IS appreclatiVe and Jl'I literary
taste, as well as for s ioroible and convincing
lopc and appeal 10 behalf Of human freedom
lie is mcst widely and We think iaVoraoly'
known as the author Of tho " Green Mountain
Bows" work which achieved great populaTl-
ty when it was fret published, has passed through
fifty or sky editions ia this country has pe-h
translated and printed IN several languages on
the Continent Of Europe, and which Librarians
sly Is in better demand than almost any other
book On their shelves. We remember with great
distnctness when we first read some chapters
oil this story many years ago,-we don't care
to Say how msny-in the Walchman, and how
its soones and portrature, aud graphic de-
scr ption and stirring events, took our imagina-
ton an unressliug captive. We have read It
with delight many times since, and sill regard
it as the bost OF Mr. Thompson's writings IT
although we believe in this our judgment Is
not ia agreement with bis 1t i: not our pur-
pose, however, 70 make a general notice and
criticism Of Mr.. Thompson as an author,-al-
though the lab)r would be a pleasant ono Tor
ourse.yes-but only to call attention to the
book JUS, given 70 the public by Carleton.
The scenes IN Centeola or the Maid Of the
Mounds, " are laid in W WlscoAsin, and the story
was suggested by Mr.. Tbompson's observation OF
the mounds and other evidences in that state
and along the valley Of the Mississippi, that the
North American continent was inhabited at
remote period IL the pas. By race Of whom no
history remains, and the proof Of whose exist
enca has scarcely been preserved in the vague
hints Of tradition. Many Of our readers Will
remember that Mr. Hagor, our state Geolosls''
read very interesting paper, about year since,
before the State Historical Society, AMI also be-
fore several literary A'sociatIoos, giving the
results Of his observations IN the ylcaity OF the
Lake Superior copper mines The conclusion
arrived at by MIR. Hlser, and which the facts
set forth IN his paper seemed fully to warrant
was tn It the region around Lake Superior. and
the vicinity Of the copper mines, were, many
hundred years age, visited and probably nhabi-
tel by race, unlike the Indians, who as far
back as history or tradition reaches, were the
aborignes OF the Northwest. Mr.. Thompson,
in his prea'c to the book before US, comes to
the sama opinion. lie says " American writers
who are considered th1 beet authority on the
subject generally concur in the opinion, we
believe, that the North American continent has
been peopled, at dfIeiest periods by three
distinct races Of the Red Men, who, issuing aP-
parently from come remote point in the Nortt-
east, spread themselves over the temperate
regions of the present territory oil the United
States, formed popuous and powerful nations,
and thea, after unkn)wn intervals OF time,
passed successiyely away to the tropical elimes
Of Mexico and Central America.
The first vi these three races, Mr., Thompson
thinks, came " from the eastern part Of Asia,
found It's way into the rich valley OF the Miss
issippi considerably more than thousand years
ago, and after dourishing there many centuries
made gradual exodus 10 the South, and became
the Iotec nation, which is known to have pre-
eeded the MeIcans, and is thouhgt to have fulfilled
its destiny in Central America, having been the
builders Of those wondrous fabrics, whose ruins
have recently been brought to light by Stephens
and etders.' The second race, the author be-
probably from Asia and being scattered through
the valley from the lakes to the Gull of Mexico,
This race be regards as the Mound builders and
identical with the AzIecs, the loundsrs of tho
old Mexican Empire which eliminated under
Mon,e2uma and fell with that unfortunate
mona rch. lie Gays All the traditions OF
the old Mexcans coucur,with wonderful unanim-
ity, in declaring that their people once resided
far to the North, where they were strong and
aourishing people that they inhabited the
pleasant land which they called Azatan, from
which they were fnally driven by a stronger
people issuing from some place still farther
North,-that they left Asatlan about the yoSr
lice aud finally, after many intermediate
sojourns occupying nearly two centuries, they
assembled in Mexico. While Mr.. Thompson
was spending some months in Wisconsin, he
became much interested in examining the eyl
dences in portions Of that State, Of the resi-
dencs there Of this ancient race, aud he found
in the valley oil the Wisconsin river traces o
these ancient mounds so plainly discernible a
70 lead him to imagine that it was the h.art o
The ancient Aza,lan, and that whore now is
large lake in that neighb0rhood, was tho site o
It's ancient capital.
Starting with this theory Mr.. Thompson ha
written an sntifelv i,nnrin.,,r. .,... .t.....