View of the Hebrews; Or, the Tribes of Israel in America ... 12+

📒 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... Great Spirit. And earlier than the sun appears again upon the hills, ho gives thanks for his protection during the night. For he feels that among men become desperate by the injuries they sustain, it is God only that can preserve him. Cornplant loves peace. Ail that he had in store, he has given to those who have been robbed by your people, lest they should plunder the innocent to repay themselves." The original peaceable and hospitable character of the Indians testifies much relative to their traditional religion as having come down from a divine origin. I might here multiply quotations; but shall content myself with two. These I shall preface with a remark, that the Indian cruelties to our people have been manifestly occasioned by the injuries they have received from various of our people, and by their own traditionary notions, which they think accord with these injuries, that the w hite people are out of the covenant of the Great Spirit once made with their lathers, are the accursed pecple, and may well be exterminated. But let us hear the testimony of Christopher Columbus, as given in Edwards' West Indies, relative to the peaceable and hospitable temper of the native! f our land, when he first discovered this continent. Writing to hie rojal ...