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poured in letters so cutting, so vituperative, and so scurrilous that till his death, 

 at the close of the war, it was found necessary to scan and sift his mail before he 

 read it. 



In many respects the son was weaker than his father; in some he was stronger. 

 Living in and for his fellow men, he read eagerly all they said of him. He could 

 not be saved from the bitterness of their censure. And now that he has laid 

 down the burdens he had so nobly borne and rounded out the measure which it 

 was permitted him to fill, let us cherish the more the lessons he has taught us, 

 and keep warm in the hearts of men his perpetual memory. 



Kansas State Normal, January 20, 1885. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



" DID THE ROMANS COLONIZE AMERICA." 



C. W. IRISH, C, E. 



A labored article with the above caption appeared in the numbers of the 

 Review for September and November, 1884, Vol. VIIL 



It is my purpose to examine the statements of Mr. Moore, the writer of said 

 article, with a view to ascertain how much fact they may contain, and also what 

 may be the value of those statements to the earnest student, who is striving, out of 

 the meagre points in his possession, coupled with traditions and known customs 

 of the present Indian races, to build up a theory which may account for the 

 origin of the Red Man ; at least as plausibly as we account for the origin of the 

 White Man. That by patient study of all which we can gather, we may do so, 

 seems probable, but then in my opinion it must be done by a more credible 

 statement of facts and better founded arguments than has Mr. Moore advanced. 



In the first place, why should we begin our study into the origin of the 

 Indian by the enquiry of " From what far-off land came he?" It is plain, I 

 think, that if we ignore the fact that the Indian may have begun his existence 

 here, in the land where wc now dwell, at the very starting point of our enquiry, 

 we commit a serious error. But not so serious as to take up all the old myths 

 of the Gentiles, Jews, Greeks and Romans, and those of all nations of antiquity 

 whose tales of lost tribes and individuals have come down to us through the 

 medium of history ; and try to make those old tales, myths, and traditions 

 true by accounting through them for the origin of the Indian races of America. 



Another serious error made in such inquiries, is to assume that the Indian 

 has lapsed into barbarism; to assume that away back in time his progenitors were 

 cultured men, highly civilized and enlightened. How foohsh the statements to the 

 effect that " The pre-historic ruins reflect not only a high order of art but are 



