| Show ANCIENT fortifications TO THE TRUTH OF THE BOOK OF MORMON in 0 harrison HarrI sometime president rhe united states is reported in the cical society of ohio vol 1 p that these as aa saying baying were not erected for a 9 defense a sudden invasion for the t of the wall and the solidity of construction show that the uan dan bwy were to guard against was present the three mounds I 1 visited Vis have ve a military character wd upon them which cannot be ken the thong thoughtful explorer and geologist gist these silent witnesses of ent t feuds an and d conflicts between 1 that have long since passed away it ta a succession of puzzling enig 46 but these would be solved if j would world accept the reliable hy and proofs that exist I 1 and not lt them simply because they are T booe use the tb records concerning the aboriginal races of america their derivation manners religion and social condition contained in the book of mormon has hag been given to the world numerous witnesses of a most astounding character have appeared to testify of the genuineness of the history they have come too like the record from the ground whispering out of the dust while one class of learned wen inen the religious class have been denying the truth and respectability of the book of mormon annals another class have been seriously laboring to bring to light the most powerful and palpable proofs of the reliability of the statement of the exhumed record the explorers came to the conclusion that war was evidently an important subject of thought with the mound builders why was war a subject of thought with those ancient nations the strife was evidently of a civil end and an u unintentional biln tent ional character there are no signs sign indicating incursions of foreign in or of armies of different races there are no anatomical characteristics in the remains proving that the comba combatant tanu were of different nationalities mr morton philadelphia 1839 published a work on crania americana or EL a coin comparan com ve view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of north america in which he remarks that a unity of physical type exists among all the inhabitants of both americas with the sole exception of the esqui maux another weighty feet in support of the theory that a single race peopled all the atlantic coast of america is found in the analogies between the languages of the ancient inhabitants of those regions dr crevaux an industrious dust rious laborer in the scientific field and whose life was sacrificed in the cause we learn that he be was murdered by the bobas tobas noted a marked similarity between the languages of the na tives of guiana the upper amazon amason the antilles and aad that of the ancient inhabitants of rio de janeiro bull soc boo aoth anth 1881 p while many important diversities in color stature and other physical features as well as agrees in moral social and artificial status existed and although they were broken up into numerous tribes yet all the most reliable writers agree that they had one common origin chebook the book of mormon relates that under the direct command and guidance of the almighty a small colony of the ancient inhabitants of eastern asia emigrated to america about the time of the building of the tower of babel after peopling a vast area of the american continent extending extend ing through a period of seventeen hundred years the people became exceedingly low and depraved lost every characteristic of human affection and cultured civilization they engaged in the most dreadful wars ware and savage conflicts which included the entire population even women and children and resulted in the total destruction of the race these exterminating wars ware carried off not tees less than fifteen million souls these early inhabitants of america were named Jared ites after the name of the founder of the colony they lived principally in north america the nations with them were the babylonians Chal deans and egyptians and whatever remains at the ibe present day da of the Jared ites must bear the marks of their primitive origin but the relies relice of the Jared ites would not be likely to consist to any great extent of fortifications and walled cities since their founders left the plains of nimrod before the inhabitants of the early world had divided into separate and rival nations in the diye days of the departure of the jaredine Jar edite pilgrims war and military engineering had not become the proud boast of great nations jared had seen een probably some examples ot ol ancient masonry temples pyramids and palaces masonic structures built to endure through the earths temporal existence J jared ared had perhaps not only seen but had actually assisted in building the great historical tower but it is not likely that he had ever seen a battlemented tower a defensive fort or field earth forkl what lathe is the result of division and rival interests and purposes the characteristic of jared Is contemporaries por aries arles were reunion re union and centralization of purpose and effort after the settlement of the country by the Jared ites the people lived in peace and their leaders were righteous men for many generation but in the following generations they divided into two rival nations and then commenced the calamities cala maties mattes which worked their ultimate destruction the character of their warfare was rather of the guerrilla order than that affixed of fixed battlegrounds battle grounds and permanent defenses we read of the armies moving rapidly from place to place and pitching their tents in various places on their matches marches but it does not appear from the brief record we have of those sanguinary struggles that either side aide was opposed by high walls and permanent strongholds strong holds if such places had existed to any considerable extent the historian would have mentioned them in describing the final battles the following extracts from the short annals will give a general idea of the character of the mode of warfare of the Jared ites now there began to be war upon all the face of the land every man with his band and it came to pass that cori was exceeding angry with shared and he be went against him with his hia armies aimle to battle and they did meet in great anger and they did meet him in the valley of GUgal and the battle became exceeding sore and it came to pass that shared fought against him for the space of three days and it came to pass that beat dimand him and did pursue him till he came to the plains of Hish lon aud and it came to pass that shared gave him battle again upon the plains and behold he did beat coriau coreau humr and drove him back again to the valley of gilgal galgal and gave shared battle again in the valley of gilgal galgal in which he beat shared and slew him and shared wounded in his thigh that he did not go to battle again for the space of two years in which time all the people upon all the face of the land were shedding blood and there was none to re restrain idrain them P I 1 ether xiii 2631 2531 26 25 31 every man kept kepf the hilt of his sword thereof in his hia right hand in the defense of his property and of his wives and children the army of did press forward upon lib that he fled to the bor ders upon the seashore sea acore and it came to pass that pursued gunned him and lib gave battle unto him upon the sea shore and it came to pass that he did smite smile the army of that they fled again to the wilderness of akish and it came to pass that lib did pursue him until he be came to the plains of abash and had taken all the people with himas he fled before Lib in that thab quarter of the land whither he fled now the name of the brother of lib was called shiz saiz and it came to pass that shiz pursued after and he did overthrow many cities and he did slay both women and children and he did burn the cities thereof and there went a fear of shiz throughout all the land yea a cry went forth throughout the land who can stand before the army of shiz behold he swee peth the earth before him and it came to pass that the people began to flock together in armi armies es throughout all the face of the land and they were divided and a part of them fled to the army of shiz and a part of them fled to the army of and so great and lasting had been the war and so long had been the bloodshed and carnage that the whole face of the land was covered with the bodies of the dead and so swift and speedy speed was the war that there was none left to bury the dead but they did march forth from the shedding of blood to the shedding of blood leaving the bodies of both mono men women and children strewed upon the face of the land to become a prey to the worms of the flesh ether xiv 2 22 JOHN H KELSON to be continued |
