Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-10-04

some respect TO that of Chief Magistrate, and is in
accordance with the genius and disposition of the
people of this country.
Ii is difficult this period decide with certain
~ on the manner and forms adopted in choosing the
judges of Israel. Most of the distinguished men
who had filled that station were raised up'' by
divine influence. Their skill in war and wisdom
In peace, their valour and experience, their capaci
ty to govern, and incidental and necessary qualica-
tons calculated to excite public confidence were
| passports to office.
| Dispersed as the nation now is, and no posi-
btiitDE concentrating the general voice, there
ben ipower to grant--no right TO withhold
! the must be assumed by divine permission,
and TIC lover exercised by general consent and APP
probation: He who assumes This power, who
takes The lead 1.-THE great work of regeneration ard
judges righteously, will always be sustained by
public opinion. BY this test l wish to be judged
Born in free country, and educated with Ii
berai principles familiar wihslt the duties of govern
ment, having enjoyed the confidence of my fellow
citizens in various public trusts--ardently attached
TO the principles of our holy fafth, and having de
voted years of lahour and study to ameliorate the
condition OF the Jews, with unsullied conscience
and firm reliance on Almighty God, offer my
sell an humble instrument of his divine will and
solicit the confidence and protection of below ed
brethren throughout the world. III there be anv
person possessing greater facilities and ardent
zeal in attempting the Jews 10 ;her rights
as sovereign and Independent, people, to such will
cheeriully the trust.
cannotbe insensibc to the many difficulties
which may present themselves in the successful
progress of the great work of regeneration. The at
tempt may be pronounced visionary and impraci-
cable--the reluctance of some 10 counienance the
efort-tLe ,imidity of Others and the apprehensons
OF all may be arrayed against enterprise exIraor
dnar! and interesting, but always feasible. indulge
in no Chimercal views. know this country its
soil, climate and resources and confidently embark
in the undertaking. Firm of purpose, when the OBJ
lect Is public good, allow difficulties 10 check
my progress. Urged to its reconsideration BY strong
and irresistible impulse the project has always
presented itself 10 me in the most cheering light
in the most alluring colors; and if The attempt
shall result In ameliorating the CONDITION of the
Jews, and shall create generous and liberal feel
ing towards them, and open to them the avenues
oil science, learning, fame, honor and happiness,
who shall say that have failed? l ask the trial.
and will abide the result.
The Hebrew nation, with it's sublime Tbeocracy,
its moral laws, its warlike character and powerful
government, originated ina family of Shepherds
From AN ancestry not more iustrious, arose the
heroes and sages OF Greece, and to The neglec; ed
children of the forest Rome, once mistress of
the world, indebted for existence. From origins
the most humble and from projects the doub fu
the world has been indebted for signal benefits and
by European persecution, have lad the foundations
o! splendid empire We have less difficulties 10
encounter, because we surrounded by cizlza-
ton; and few Jews in this happy land a,monished
by the pas * animated by aniicpaons of the future,
may increase rapidly and prosQerously and u.idcr
good government and wholesome laws, may fall
back in time towards the Pacitic Ocean and possess
n country the most fertile il Is capacious and
valuable We have iDng been cap'ives in land of
strangers; we have long submitted patiently 10 OPP
preston; we have long anxiously expected tenn
poral delverance; but throughout the most terrible
periods OF calamity, we have done nothing for our
selves. The Almighty, who has covered us with
the shield of his paiernal love- has given us moral
Agents, by which, with his divine aid, we are TO
elect our own deliverance. We have senses iudg-
ment, powers OF seli-government, energy, capacity
and wealth. If, with all these great requisites we
still - hang our harps upon the willow we still
cover ourselves with sackcloth and ashes and do
not make one effort for independence, how can we
reasonably continue to supplicae God for our res
toration, who made man to his own image aud pro-
claimed him free? Why should the parent OF ma
tons, the Oldest OF people, the founders of religion
wander among the governments OF the earth, in
treating succor and protection when we are capable
| OF protecting ourselves.
The time has emphatically arrived 20 do some
thing calculated to benefit our own condition. and
excite the admiration of the world, and we must
commence the work in a country free from ignoble
preludices and legal isquali6caions--a country, in
| when liberty can be insurel TO the Jews without
the loss OF one drop of blood.
! The present condition of our people throughout
the world Is not without interest and Instruction.
The rlghttul posscssors OF Palestine are slaves in
their own territory, and the pious attachment of the
resident Jews OF the Holy Land, gives them the
highest claims our charity and protection There
are several hundred families in jerusalem Hebron.
| and flberias three OF the most ancient congrega-
! tons in the world, and the number in the HOLY
Land may be computed at 100 900. Those on the
borders OF the Mediterranean are engaged in trade
and manufactures; those in the in erior aud pati-
| cularly in Jerusalem, poor and dreadluy OPP
pressed. They the great sentines and giardians
of the law and religion, and amidst Inc seyere-t pri-
vations and the most intense suiTerings they have
for centuries kept their eye upon the ruined site of
the temple and said, g the time will corpe-tLe dtv
will be accomplished The Samaritan ews which
formerly were numerous and scattered over Egypt ,
Damascus, Ascalon md Casarea, are now reduced
| to few hundred poor nodeuslve persons, princi-
pally residents Of Jaffa and Naplouse. rs there is
essential difference between their doctrines and
| the rest of brethren, the distinction between
| them should cease. The Caraile Jews, who are
numerous, and principally residents of :he Crimea
and the Ukraine and are respectable body of men
They reject the lalInud and fabbinica doctrines,
adherng closely 10 ne precepls OF our divine law
| On the borders Of Cochin China, we nave a ls-ge
colony Of white and black Jews. Their Plumbers
are computed at 10000. The white Jews reside on
| the sea coast, olj he blacks in the interior. The
blacks, who call themselves Beii Erl e., mus have
sXis ed Al the line Ct The first temple TIE earches
In the inferior Of Africa NAV, at some fture period
give rs immense COLONIES of jews, which efrigra Ell
at an carly period from Egypt. There are on the
coast OF Malabar and Coromandcl, and in the ia
error Of India, a considerable number of weeiihy
md Teraplifos NTr9lurps will lc ,Io-