Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-05-16
Americans Before Adam.

IN. r., Stevenson in Cincinnati Price Current. J
In answer to the report of Judge West,
of Kansas, relative to his discovery of rel.
builders VINO inhabited kingdom ex-
tending from the Rocky Mout tains TO tho
APPALACHIAN chain, or Blue Ridge, and
I ON the Atlantic ocean and gulf of Mex
leo to the great lakes, beyond which boun-
daries no relics of works of AIT or fossil
bones have been found, 1t was gress
nation; and from ineontrovertible geologi-
ical proof we have no hesitancy ia indor
sing Poi. Vests opinion, that this nation
of people existed here more than two hun
bred thousand years ago Theyswere n
| temporary with the rhinoceros. cave be +,
mastodon, etc., and were semi-clvilized,
! worshiped the sun, and cultivated tho AL
luvial lands of this vast territory. We
have opened many Of their burial mounds
and the Easements of some Of their
temples, all of which have an escarpment
on the tho eastern side, whore sacrifices
were offered 10 their god, like the Per-
SLAMS of Asia. In all the cemeteries We
found the mica mirror, dou otless procured
from the mines two miles from this city,
also the margenella shell for ornament,
only found on the north cost Of the Gulf
OF Mexico $500
Two m lies below Cartersyile, in Barlow
county, VA, OH lu6 Sud4thubUCuGO TlVGT,
are the remains of a magnificent temple,
eighty seven fact high, with an escarpment
on the east OF near twenty fert high and
twenty wide, where granite idol was
plowed UP by tho Indians fifty years ago,
and sold to an Englshmsn, who sold it to
the Salisbury collection, in England. and
in 1871 the goddess was plowed up at the
same place, and now in posse sion of Capt
Lyon, who loaned it TO the Smithsonian
Inc tint NJ NNnahfnufpr IN tnl
electrotypes from. This noble institution
! is collecting relics from all parts Of the
| great west and south, SO as 10 form an al
| phabot to enable us to read the history of
| this great people. Champellio Of france
SITTER ages of fruitless labor hnally found
the key to unlock the mysteries of Egypt,
[ and gave the world the gLores Of that
mighty kingdom. bare the promise Of
developing, by,tunnels through the grand
temple, and through the circular cemetery
near by, seventyseight feet high, which
We have no doubt will give us q large
collection of works ofart human bones &c
This temple is surrounded hy..a dit h Thirty
feet deep fromsriver to river, in bond If
fifty acres, on which are four wstch towers
twenty feet high on the east side and two
on the west providing that they werA q
warlike nation. This is the only point
where gold beads have been fonnd which
is accounted for by the exist nee Of a mas.
sve gold vein in the neighborhood,
&c rgis, Ohio, lllinoissand West Virginia
contsin the most magnificent remains
of this once great enation Indiana, hn',
Kentucky, Tennessee. Alabama, Mississp.
pi and Louisiana are all filed with their
; works. We Will sayt, you tina tine anst.
omy of these. people are AS essentially diff
ferent from the Caucasian as the Ass is from
The horse providi the bible TO BY true
when 'orrecily translated. as it positively
confirms the record of the inspired writer
in the nrst chapter Of Genesis, which in
the Hebrew copy gives us ths history of
e.Adamites, but sxpunged by the coun-
ell of King Jams. beesu,e he believed in
the absurd doctrine of the unity of
human ra Q. The extinction OF this
race of spre.Adsmites We know not,
but we can satisfy any sane man
that they lived here at asst 2C000 years
ago, and that the white race only
gives evidence of not more than 100 0
years Bishop U shers chror ology is false.