Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-12-31
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
THE JEWS.

II Il U IA ~ w
The present physical, moral, and social
condition Of the Jews, must be miracle.
We can come to no other conclusion. Had
they continued, from the commencement OF
the Christian era down to the present hour
in some such national state in which we
find the Chinese, walled OF from the rest Of
the human family, aud by their srIhshness
OH national scale, and their rcPulsion oil
alien elements, resisting every assault from
without in the shape of hostile invasion, and
from an overpowaring national pride, inr-
bidding the introduction of new and foreign
customs, we should not see so much mys.
terry interviewer with their existence. But
this is not their stale-lar from it. They
are neither united and independent na-
ton, nor parasitic province. They are
peeled, and scattered and crumbled into
itagtnents but, like broken globules of
quick silver, Instinct with cohesive pow
err ever claiming affinity, aud ever ready
10 amalgamale. Geography, arms, genius,
politics, and foreign help, DO not explain
their existence time and climate and GUS
toms equally fail W unravel il. N " II
shese are or can be the springs Of their per-
petuity They have been spread over every
part of the habitabie globe; they have lived
under the regime Of every dynasty; they
have shared The protection Of lu-t laws, the
prescription Of cruel ones, and witnessed
the rise and progress oi both they have
used every tongue, and lived Ia every lali-
tude. The SHOWS of Lapland have chilled,
and the suas of Africa have SEQ. ched them.
They have drunk of the Tiber the Thames,
the Jordan, the Mississippi. Iii every cen
,nry. and in every degree Of lall'nde aud
longitude, we find Jew. Ii is not SO with
any other race. Empires the most illus
,rious have fallen, and buried the men that
constructed them bat the jew has lived
among the RUNS, living monument of in
destruc,ibili.y. Persecution has nnsheaih-
ed the sword aud lighted the fngnt. papal
superstition and MosIen ba,barism have
snnle item with unsparing terucity. penal
rescripts aud deep prejudice have visited
on them most unr,ght"ons chastiSemen:;
and Notwithstanding all, they SURVIVE
Robert Montgomery IN his Nessiuh, thus
expresses the relative position Of The Jews
"Empires Hive sunk and kingdoms passed away,
But still, apart, sublime in misery, stand.
And miracles around the cross
A holy splendor of undying truth
Preserve but yet their pning spirit looks
For that unrsen Sun which prophets ha'd
And when | view him in the garb OF wo,
A wandering ou,cast, by the world disowned
The ha.gard, lost, and long oppressed Jew,
81 Ills BLOOD BE ON US" through my spirit rolls
In fearful echo from a naiIon's lips
Remembered Zion still for thee awaits
A future teeming with trumpha sounds
And shape of glory"
Like their own bush on Mount Horeb,
Israel has continued in the flames, but un-
consumed. They are the arlstocracy of
Scripture, rett OF their coronets--prnces
in degradation. A BabyIonian. a Theban,
"a Spartan, an Athenian, a Roman, are
names known in history only their shad-
ows alone haunt the world and flicker on
its tablets. A Jow walks every street,
dwells in evsry capital, taverses every
exchange, and relieves the monotony of the
nations of tho earth. The race has Inherit
ed the heirloom of Immortality, incapable
of extinction or amalgamation. Like
streamets from common head, and com
posed of waters of peculiar nature, they
have flowed along every stream, without
blending with it, or receiving its color or
its flavor, and traversed the surface of the
Globe. and the lapse of many centuries,
peculiar, distinct, alone. The Jewish race.
at this day, is perhaps the most striking
seal of the truth of the Sacred OracIes.
There is no possibility of accounting for
their perpetual isolation, their depressed
but distinct being, on any grounds save
those revealed in the records of truth.
Their aggregate and individual character
is as remarkable as their circumstances.
Meanness the most abject, and pride
the most overbearing-the degradation of
helots, and yet conscious and manifest