General Discussions

Here are the evidences of two great and good men most artlessly uniting in the leading facts stated by Mr. Adair. The char acter of Mr. Boudinot (who was for some time President of the American Bible Society,) is well known. He was satisfied with the truth of Mr. Adair’s history , and that the natives of our land are Hebrews, the ten tribes. And he hence published his “Star in the West” on this subject’ whi ch is most worthy of the perusal of all men. [p.85] From various authors and travellers [sic] among the Indians, the fact that the American Indians are the ten tribes of Israel, wil l be attempted to be proved by the following ar guments: 1. The American natives have one origin. 2. Their l anguage appears to have been Hebr ew. 3. They have th eir imit ation of the ark of the covenant in anci ent Israel. 4. They have been in practice of circumcision. 5. They have acknowledged one and only one God. 6. The celebrated Will iam Penn gi ves account of the natives of Pennsy lvania, which go to corroborate the same point. 7. The Indians having one tribe, answering in variou s respects to the tribe of Levi, sheds farther light on this subject. 8. Several prophetic tr aits of charact er given to the Hebr ews, do accurately apply to the aborigin es of America. 9. The Indians being in tribes, with their heads and names of tribes, afford further light. 10. Their having something answering to the ancient citi es of refuge, seems to evince their Israelitish extraction. 11. Their variety of traditions, historical and religious, do wonderfully accord with the idea, that they descended from the ancient ten tribes.