The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-19 00:00:00

POLAND.

The following is the address of the Polish Central
National Committee to the Jews in Poland, and their
reply :
To our Brethren of the Old Covenant,—Several centu-
ries ago, when fanaticism was raging over all Europe, when
the institutions of the middle ages had scornfully thrust
you out of the pale of society, and every country was rear-
ing funeral piles for you, hospitable and humane Poland
was the only nation who spread over you her sheltering
wings and hugged you to a mother's bosom.
And mutual relations were formed amongst us, and you
occupied a standing in the Polish community, and there
was no example in Poland of any persecution, not only of
your faith, but of your habits and customs.
And the moment came at last when you recognised
Poland to be your country, and we acknowledged you vo•
luntarily and from heartfelt conviction as our fellow-
brothers, which no nation in the world has had the heart
to do as yet.
And, henceforth, no one can ever deny your being to-
gether with us the children of one mother—the children of
our country Poland.
Only the foe laying in wait for the perdition of Poland,
the foe only, who rests his rule in our country upon dupli-
city and falsehood, and by causing division and setting us
at variance, this foe only makes yet distinctions with regard
to you.

This foe deliberates lir on you in his committees at St.
Petersburg like upon Indian pariahs; forbids you, like in-
fectPd beings, from settling in Muscovite provinces and in
Lithania, and Russia thrusts you out of human society by
legal restrictions.

Here in this by the Congress of Vienna established
kingdom of Poland, being unable to contradict the dis-
tinctly expressed national will, the foe nevertheless renders
this will unavailing by enacting for you distinct laws full of
restrictions and exceptions, whilst we have out of our own
free will and most sincerely settled lung since the so called
" Jewish Question," by a brotherly embrace.
By these deceits the foe imposes upon some of the more
credulous amongst you—he fancies to be able to form
amongst you a party for himself, and falsely maintains that
the immunities granted to you proceed from him I
Brethren of the Old Covenant, we have faith in your
being Poles; judge therefore with Polish mind and heart
these proceedings of the invader bearing heavily upon Po-
land. Like Poles, unite with us in a common family, use
your greatest exertions for the emancipation of your com-
mon country, and never forget, that the necessity of enact-
ing for you distinct exceptional laws can only cease in an
entire, free, and independent Poland.

THE CENTRAL NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Warsaw, Sept, 9, 1862.

THE REPLY OF THE JEWS.

Brothers,—Our common foe having exhausted all the

means to crush the nation, has again recourse to the old
device of Muscovite-Austrian policy, " divide and impera,"
divide and govern, and what bayonets, musket balls, the
profanation of temples, what the dungeons, Siberia, and the
rope could not accomplish, he expects to attain by provoking
Gallician massacres and a crusade against the Jews. And
behold the wolf puts on the lamb's skin, the tyrant pro-
claims himself a protector of the oppressed. But whoever
can fail to perceive the claw under the treacherous dis-
guise, whoever does not anticipate treason lurking be-
hind it.

The Muscovite Government who do not admit the Sews
even now into their dominions, who at a not more remote
period than the reign of Nicholas, were baptizing children

forcibly torn away from their parents, this Governmcn

rests now their appeal to us (published in No. 202, of their
official organ the Dzionnik Powszechity), upon the wrongs
perpetrated upon us in Poland, in the country which
pressed us to her bosom at the time when everywhere else
we were persecuted by fire and sword. They dole out to
us some immunities, but these are not conceived in the
noble spirit of Casimir the Great, whose purpose it was to
alleviate our fate and incorporate us in mind and feeling
into the Polish nation, but they are merely intended to
attach us to them to separate us from the rest of the nation
and again evoke against us hate and persecution. The
Muscovite Government hope by these means to shake the
brotherly feeling which puts them into such awe and fury,
and to sow between us mutual mistrust, of which they
would not fail to take advantage. But their efforts are of
no avail.

Our stay of eight centuries on the soil of Poland turned
us into her children. Her history is our history, her fate
is our fate, and her foe our foe. Tho esteem and affection
of our fellow. brethren is dearer to us than any material ad-
vantages soever. We prefer a clear conscience and an un-
blemished character, which enable us to look boldly into
every fellow-countryman's face, to all the comforts of life.
The base temptations of the Muscovite shall never deafen
into us the mighty voice of the prophet Jeremiah calling to
the Jews carried away captives from Palestine : " Seek the
peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried
away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it, for in the
peace thereof shall ye have peace."—Jerem. xxix, 7.
Do not withdraw therefore from us your hand brethren;
strengthen the holy knot of brotherho' d tied on the graves
of the victims of the 28th of February aril the& h of April,
and this last act of despair of the foe will be like all the
former ones, of no avail.

THE POLES OF JEWISH PERSUASION.