Genealogy of the Caverly family : from the year 1116 to the year 1880, made profitable and exemplified by many a lesson of life . known sociallyotherwise than as in tribes. Hence we hear of thetwelve tribes of Israel, of which the twelve sons ofJacob were the leaders. Hence the primeval inhabitantsin and about Arabia, Egypt, Athens, Kome, and Londonwere found to be wandering tribes,— tribes also not very^ much unlike — save, perhaps, in color — our own Ameri-can Indian tribes. The origin of the native American Indian has beena question of considerable siDCculation. Poetically, we have imagined
Genealogy of the Caverly family : from the year 1116 to the year 1880, made profitable and exemplified by many a lesson of life . known sociallyotherwise than as in tribes. Hence we hear of thetwelve tribes of Israel, of which the twelve sons ofJacob were the leaders. Hence the primeval inhabitantsin and about Arabia, Egypt, Athens, Kome, and Londonwere found to be wandering tribes,— tribes also not very^ much unlike — save, perhaps, in color — our own Ameri-can Indian tribes. The origin of the native American Indian has beena question of considerable siDCculation. Poetically, we have imagined he originated in theearth, and sprang from it at the creation, like a plantor a tree. However that might be, it is indeed true, His footstep fondly dwelt where now we tracePrimeval heirlooms of the human race :The chisel smooth, and tomahawk first madeOf stone, eer art had formed the iron blade;Where, from a narrow dock with native crew,He launched in naval pride the first canoe.* The Indian himself knew nothing of the paternity ofhis race, nor of any change in their primeval manners * From my Mcrriniac, pp. 20, I F DISCOUESE. 7 and customs. Tradition furnishes nothing otherwise;and for aught we know, their modes of living, their war-fare, and their manners generally are precisely the samenow as in the days of our forefathers, and j^robably thesame as from the creation,—the merest wild hunters,uncivilized, unimproved, unchanged. Thus, oer land and sea, for ages long, A race of redmen vagrant moved along. With language, taught from rustic Natures throne, And habits each peculiarly their own. On growth spontaneous fed, content with prey, That served the purpose of a single day. Their God was seen afar at rise of sun; Their life in heaven is hunthig, here begun. By laws unwritten, sachems rule the tribes, And lead the hosts, wherever ill betides, To fatal war. By force of arrows hurled They reigned, sole monarchs in this western world.* Hence, up to the time of our f
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