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Show JUDAH AND ISRAFL. Atry among the Indians.”?, Mr. Adair 4 4 OF - - STA TE eran : on tion, we rat Sey ee 2 ~. u x Fe 4 the study of their i a - ns e ’ ae “ ”Y te Ral eee . 7m: a > bby oe al oe sl 5 a i i Pa Se m — EO noe tal = ia $ wa 4 md Se “ aa - ae ) a b me. Sa A i os : aaah 7 sae e ¢ — chines. « 0 4 a i a * iat os a Lo — Be eS i. . een td a SSS i ee SERS th a POL ee et ed | ever, iia character and history.” in the course of their remarks they add; “ To the testimonies here adduced by Doctor Jarvis, (1. e. that > Ee yep, ee ies o eS also, as well as our European brethren, are beginning to take a move lively interest than oe me — ae . ol \ ae ; io ‘ * e ~s . = ™ - ; a ed ; - 7, 2 PRESENT THE the Indians are ten tribes of Israel.) might have the , been added several of our New-England historians they Some ry.”? count from the first settlement of the proceed to mention; and then add, that the Rev. Messrs. Samuel Sewall, fellow of Harvard College, , were and Samuel Willard, vice president of the same nts of of opinion, that “ the Indians are the descenda Israci.””. Doct. Jarvis notes this as an hypothesis, which has been a favourite topic with European wr'ters ; and as a subject, to which itis hoped the Amer| icans may be said to be waking up at last. jon. that the ten after soon tribes, 51 Ga gives his opinbanishment their hed this from the Jand of Israel, left Media, and reac before the continent from the north-west, probably carrying away of the Jews to Babylon. But before I proceed to adduce the documents and evidences upon this subject, | shall make one more relapreliminary remark, and note another prediction ogg . Israel of tive to the outcast state 6. ‘There is a prophecy in,Amos vili.l1, 12, relative to the ten tribes of Israel Whit@tirtheir state of ars banishment from the promised land, which appe s 5 exactly to accord with the account given by Esdra and to the Indian tradition, which meets this, appear ; and appears well to accord with the as will state of fact with the American natives, as will be seen. Amos But as we have Tle prophewas a prophet to the ten tribes of Israel. The chap. hment banis their sied not long before commened, adduc ter containing the prophecy to be main pillar of his evidence is James Mr. Adair was a man of established Adair, Esq. He lived character, as appears from good authority. thus explained ; “* Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel ; I will notThe prophet in the chappass by them any more.” Manasses Ben Israel, in a work entitled “The Hope Inof Israel,”? has written to show that the American dians are the ten tribes of Israel. _ ge access to his authors, we elves. may consult them for our- The a trader among the Indians. in the south of North He left them and returned - America, for forty years. ‘* Histoto England i 1774, and tvere published his for bens ry of the American Indians ? and his reaso Israel. ing persuaded that they are the ten tribes of concludes Remarking on their descent and origin, he ns | could thus ; *¢ From the most accurate observatio n make, in the long time | traded among the India lineally deAmericans, | was forced to believe them nine tribes and -isc | ended from the Israelites. Had the by Shalmanea half of Israel, that were carried off there long, it ts ‘zer, and settled in Media, continued the natives, and very probable by intermarrying with to idolafrom their natural fickleness and proneness that they le, examp of try, and also from the force e the gods of would have adopted and bowed befor ed them Media and Assyma; and would have carri this idolof trace But there is not a along with them. ces with a basket of sammer fruit, which must soon The symbol is be eaten, or it becomes uaSt for use. ter announces that “they that swear by the sins of Samaria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, liveth ; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth ; even they shall fall.” Here is a description of the idolatry of the ten tribes, and their utter banishment then just about to take place; from which they have never been recovered to this day. As an-event to be accomplished in their outcast state, the prophet gives this striking descriptive prediction. Verse 11,12; come, ‘ Behold, the days saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, (or upon the tribes of Israel,) not a famine of bread, nora thirst for water; but of hearing the words. of the Lord. And they sball wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east ; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall aint find it.” Here is an event, which, when the reader wy . ¥ w 5 *& / |