Editorial note — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 3)
Reading edition
XXV.
——Lanatis animalibus abstinet omnis
Mensa; nefas illic fætum jugulare capellæ.
Juvenal, Sat. xv.
XXVI. The Hebrews had two presidents in the great synhedrion. The first was called Nashe Yo, “a prince of God.” They elected him on account of his wisdom: The second was called Rosh Ha-Yoshibbah, “the father of the assembly:” he was chief in the great council. And Ab beth din, or “the father of the consistory,” sat at his right hand, as the chief of the seventy-two, of which the great synhedrion consisted, the rest sitting according to their merit, in a gradual declension from the prince, to the end of the semicircle. The like order is observed by the Indians,—and Jer. ii. 27, God commanded the Israelites, that they should not turn their backs to him, but their faces toward the propitiatory, when they worshipped him. I remember, in Koosah, the uppermost western town of the Muskohge, which was a place of refuge, their supposed holiest consisted of a neat house, in the centre of the western square, and the door of it was in the south gable-end close to the white cabbin, each on a direct line, north and south.