Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-06-18

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House asked whether il would en,rust power IN
prose'yu.ng sect sthat! Now, on the contrary the
cry against the Jews was that they an unsocia
and that they were not with wing separate
unless they also formed separate family The To-
gIc Oh bigoiry was never wanting in such dilemma
(Cheers) hatever might be the
OF any sect which an attempt to free from dsabi
es, became for the time most Of ali
the Jews were unsocia rclgonss tnst was an addi.
onai security for the Christian gion but ,hey had
oeen proved to be, and he did not believe that they wero
unsocia as citizens and ueighbos The fault which W i'm
Puted 10 The jews attached TO all prosecuted s.cs
formerly attached TO the Catholics, and with good re ssoo
Tor from the accession of Elizabeth till long after the re-
formation, Catholics found that they derived
ecuon from foreign princes than their own
Snu therefore hey elt more attachment to the former
Ohuer these circumstances had heard of Catholic ma.
ousin contra dsng uished from patriotism and
me same w" respect TO the Caivniss whilst they were
prosecuted at home they constantly looking To TO-
reign countries Tor protection Let us try the
which had been tried Prussia France and America and
the Jew would be converted Low subject The Hon
member for the University OF Oxford had with the GOOD
taste which usually distinguished him nbstaineJ Ton
"ackng ne Jews but by others they had been called
mean ana sordid race averse to agriculture and other
honorable pursuits, fit only be usurers and incspa
Die OF patriotic feelings or social affections This was
only another example OF the logic of bigotry i'm all sges
You hrs generate vices and then put them for ard as
plea Tor persecution-you make England but half coun
Try TO the Jews and then you wonder that they have only
I'D" pa'riosn-you treat them foreigners and then
wonder that they have not all the feelings of
you ursw line oil separation and then express asonsh-
nent That they do not minge with you-you will not al
low e 10 possess an OF land and yet that
they devote themselves exclusively to irade-you debar
them from all exerton of honorable ambion and ,hon
reproacb them for taking refuge in the arts of
hne you have for ages subjected them every species OF
nsuce and then you condemn them for resorling what
me hat9rai resource oil the weak against overwhe
ming power-artifce and cunning (Prolongued cheer.
ing) Those who from religious opposed the present
ouon were sufcienty acquainted with the history ftbe
Jews 70 know mat The vices or imperiectons which
now attached to the Jewish are not IL
mat ages and ages before Europe emerged from
EXPERIMENTATION letters and arts were unknown to
Athens, and when scarcely hut stood upon what was s
forwards the site OF Rome the nation rose
10 the heght oil grandeur effected extensive conquess
Joyed hourshng manufactures and and
ed magnificent palaces and temples rendered il.
lus,rious by statesmen warriors natural philosophers his
torians and poets. (Hear) What nation ever STRUGGLED
more manuy against odds in the cause of
civil and religious lbery What nation in its last ago
ed by brave despair loud cheers) IT. in the course
oil many ages despsed and insuted as they had been
hey had In some degenerated from their former
condton-i In state OF slavery, they had contracted
some OF the vices Of outcasts should we consi
der matter OF rcproach to them ought rather
TO deem matter of shame ourselves and hasten 10.
repeal The disabilities under which they labor by eacng
from the siatuic-book the last relic Of intolerance; and
opening the door OF the house, every of homo
rabe competition TO them? (Cheers) Until that expe-
riment had been tried let no one presume 10 saw that
there enius in the counrymen of Isaiah and no
courage in the descendants of the Maccabees (Checrs
In supporting the motion he conceived he was con.
suliing the true interests of Christianity. He thought
that he would be Offering to Christianity groser insult
than had ever been offered to IL by any its avowed
assailans. If he say, that in his opinion
'e u's'ohhg anu intoie ant laws which il
Proposeo 10 repeal were necessary TO preserve it,
Without such aid Christianity was established, and
without such aid 1t might be d,wiilout such
ad me graceful mythology OF the heaihen poets aud the
barbarous rites OF the Saxons had vanished before it
lCheer) /, had effected these triumphs, not by means
OF inolerant laws but in the face OF them All history
proved that Christianity had every thing to dread with
persecution for her ally, and nothing with il for her
Toe. VCheeIs) Might that religion continue long a
blessing TO The world, strong in its lessons of philosophy
strong III ITS examples of moraIiiy,-strong those evil
nehces 10 which The most acute aud hui
man nteecs have surrendered themselves the last con-
sol alton OF those who had ouved all earthly hope and
The last restraint OF those who above all earthly fear
put let not Christians violate the first precepis OF their
ia'h by lighting the battle OF truth with the weapons Of
error and supporting by partial and oppressive system
religion whose nobles distinction was that first taught
continued cheers) 40