The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-07

danger from an unexpected foe, Far to.
ward the North, scarcely without a
break, goes the level country, as far up
as the lakec and miles beyond. Mounds
are frequently seen as you travel in this
direction. The general appearance is the
same while they follow up or down some
valley or cross plateau. Going in the
other direction, along the Illinois river,
they are even more common than in
Ohio. They, however, all trend with
the Mississippi. That these striking CO.
inCidenCes are the work of one race need
no proof. They, too, were not made by
the Indians, There is no bubble on this
point. The Red Man himself could give
no information as to their origin.
Thus far it has been established, in our
mind at least, that race occupied the
United States previous to the American
Indians, The conquest of Mexico, by
Cortez the Spanish invader, in 1919, fur
nishes strong evidence that the MexiCans
are defendants of the ancient Mound
Builders. The subjugation OF Peru by
Pizarro, about the same time, is another
importand witness in the case on docket.
Their language, personal appearance GUS
toms, inscriptions and legends 90 toward
proving that the Az'eCs were in the
Western Continent hundreds of years
before the Red Man. The hardy virtues
of the Indian came in contact with the
effeminate character OF the MoAtezumaa,
and just as the White Man penetrated
the wilderness and wrenChed the country
from the savage, 30 were the Mound
Builders served. They were driven
southwark in precisely the same way in
which the Aborigines were driven west.
ward, but owing to weakened physical
being, brought about by love of ease,
and, perhaps, desire to live at rest
amidst the luXuriant and spontaneous
valley, chose the tropics and beautiful soil
of Mexico. Here they may have lived
for thousand years, until the richest
mines in the world, and climatic inhu-
enCes had enervated and destroyed their
pristine vigor, and rendered them easy
to conquer, Cortez found them weak and
degenerate. Mounds and castles of the
most remote date, which were built when
the n CO were at the zenith of Civiliza.
ton, we're wearing away and tumbling
into decay when the Spanish general
marched into the country.
1t was the same in Peru. The people
in Mexico and South America were
strikingly alike. We know that in the
beginning of the sixteenth century they
were vastly superior in civilization to the
Indians of the Atlantic sea. board. But
they sucCumbed to the warm climate
Just as the ancient Greeks and Romans.
The tropical sun and rich soils always
demoralize races. The temperate zones
are better suited to elevate and perpetu.
ate the virtues of people. The hardy
natures of tho savage, tempered by hard
ship and constant exposure, won, finally
q complete victory over his more Civiliz-
ed enemy, but less determined foe. He,
no doubt, was driven back time after
time, as these mounds would signify, but
like the tribes of Gaul, at last conquered
his conqueror. The MexiCans evidently
are not of the came extraction as the In
dians. They are MOI Q like the inhati
tants of East India. They could not by
any gradation of development, even by
Darwins theory, ga n so much in Civili-
zation over the t.ibes in the North on
account of climate. Then whence came
the peopleP Geology says that these
boulders we see strewn over the country
were carried from the North by iCebergs.
Then it follows that for years after there
were no forests in this great valley. This
corresponds with the position Of the
They would have been Of little
service as signal stations, if timber was
then where it was in 1892. AS places of
worship or SACRIFICED mounds, forest
trees would neither add or detract from
their usl fulness. We do not claim all
mounds were used for similar purpose,
though we think ell those mentioned in
Southern Ohio were erected as outposts
of danger.
DR.. Robertson, with much force of inn
aglnation, constructs bridge from Africa
to South America, on which the Mexi-
cans crossed, but a span is too wide for
any half.Civiized race to use in their
primitive state of existence. Others
have believed they came from the In
Uias, but navigation was unable to GLOSS
the seas and establish race of people
on distant shores. W believe the Mex
leans to have come from Asia; crossing
Behring's Strait, following down valleys
and great bodies of water in the north
temperate zones, and finding their way
after many generations, on the table,
lands of Mexico, in state Of semi-Civil-
ization easily subdued by IN ambitious
Spaniard. The Mound Builder has left
few traces OF his existence, but some
which are as positive as the Indian.
Five centuries from row the Red Man
will have become only an historic peo.
pie; and, thousand years hence, more
in dispute than his predecessor.
Archaeology is a ienCe, sometimes, of
doubtful conclusions, but always of the
most interesting nature. 1t leads us back
to period when people were half-civil-
lied, and when war played an important
part in the affairs Of men. 1t leads us to
the changes since former
race paced up and down the valleys of
void of timber and all the fix
lures of the nineteenth century. It
teaches us to think of people crossing
Behring's Strait from Asia, and after
many years of partial civilization in the
northern and temperate climates, driven
down into land where vegetation was
spontaneous, and where precious metal
was plentiful, and where, at last, they
were conquered by foreign foe and
maltreated in the most shameful man
ner. 1t impells us to peruse the history
of the Red Man-his beginning and
probable end. 1t makes us think Of our
origin and our destiny. There may come
a time when all these questions will be
explained when the universe will give
up her dead, and the mysteries which
surround the races of antiquity will be
made clear and distinct. But our nation,
the people Of the American Republic, a
people OF civil polity, of art, of science,
we hope, at the final ending in the
crown of Jewels will shine brightest of
all,-[ Butler County Democrat.
READING WITH THE FOREHEAD.
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