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Show PRESENT THE STATE OF What other nation on oes tribe: and many others. Here, no doubt, is eans any resemblance to this? lebre er av sinc. have been strikingly fulfilled in the American dians. . ; * Dan shall be a serpent by the way ; an rider shall fall backwards. Benjamin shali ravin ar : . la 10. of Their having an imitation of city the ancient aces oS our subject. refuge, evinces the truth Bu “ ‘ Adair. Mr. from hinted been refuge has is so convincing an argument, (no nation on ~ : laving any thing of the kind, but the ancient } e ome and the Indians,) the ne eader shail be more ees y S ee Fort Loudon former ra yp enanh. Here, so ne years ago, a brave a Nae place of safety for those who kill mndeaient ‘In almost every Indian nation (he “ a. several peaceable towns, which are called holy,we or white towns. er although they often force persons from pels La that blood was i Who can read pis them laches to death.”’ on. traditi Indian this of origin the of not be satisfied 4 left it, he and is found in such a de- or wise men, who in their turn had been thus selected, To is these they deliver their traditions, whic h are cares: These are instead of historic pages aud religious books. Some of these Indian traditions, as furni shed from §0od authorities, shall be given. Different writers asree that the natives have their hist oric traditions of the reason and manner of their fathers comin g into fully retained. St 1s not within the memory of ever shed in the oldest people had Butif he Being destitute of books and letters, the India transmitted their traditions in the following ns have manner. heir most sedate and promising young men of them selected by what they call their belo are some ved men, : bel derer was secure while init. 11. Lheir variety of traditions, historical and reljgious, go to evince that they are the ten tribes of Israel. — = 7 old the are put then gree probably in no other nation. of saa is esteemed captives to death, nor human blood spilt here.” Adair assures us, that the Cherokees, .though commonwealth of Israel; tected, after killing an Indian warrior in saa He told Mr. Adair that a ot pene his property. are place of refuge, he awe : this in months stay = ee Ae GR =u the in turn to his house Wi e — him. to fatal id him it would prove ine ee there, till he pernen tre the to to Etat Deaton tend the deceased by eet oud D0 (says uskagee, oO Sep n country old aay town, called No will pursue one who has killed any ef their friends, ever so far, and ever so long, as an avenger of the blood shed, thus lies clearly open to view. It originated in the permission given to the avenger of blood in the a large stream of the ! isslsS\PPh> five miles above where This The well known trait of Indian character, that they Of one of ae p pons ly instracted on this article. “ The _towi 0 ire ag ; says ot Boudin Mr. of refuge, called Choate is on nation. no protection, but must expect death. la a communication from Rev. Mr. Pixley, missi onary in the Great Osage mission, to the Foreign Secre tary, dated June 25, 1824—among other things he says; ‘* There is a class among the Indians called the Cheshoes, whose lodges are sacred as respects the stranger and the enemy who can find their way into them,—not very dissimilar to the ancient city of refuge. | the prophetic Had night he shall divide the spoil. if seems as nes, eye rested on the American aborigi though no picture could have been more accurate. Creek exceedingly corrupt, yet so inviolably observed the taw of refuge, at that time, that even the wilful mur- der in the path, that biteth the horse heels. so es t 1e wolf; in the morning he shall marout the prey ; ISRAEL... mother town sacred to peace. bles- in Jacob’s last AND Bartram informs; “ We arrived at the Apalachn ela ~ town, in the adition. emblems given JUDAH this Country, which agree with the account given in sdras, of their leaving the land of Media, and voing to a land to the northeast, to the distance of a year. 10* — |