Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-06-08
THE JEWS


ment of tho Christian era down to the pre-
sent hour, in some such national state, in
which we find the Chinese walled off {; ON
the rest of the human family, and by their
selhshness on national scale, and. their
repulson of alien elements, resisting eve
ry assault from without, in the shape of
hostile invasion, and from an overpowering
national pride forbidding the introduction
OF new and foreign customs, we should not
sec SO much mystery interviewer with their
existence. But this is not their state-far
from it. They are neither united and
independent nation, nor a PARASITIC pro-
vince. They are peeled, and scattered,
and crutnbed into fragments; blu, like bro
ken gobulos Of quicksilver, instinct with
a cohesive power, ever claiming affinity,
and over ready to amalgamate. Geogra-
help, do not explain their exis teace; time
and climate and customs equally fail to I'M
ravel 1t. None Of these are, or can be
the springs Of thoir perpetuity. They have
been spread over every part Of the hablta-
bic globe, they have lived under the re-
glme of every dynasty, they have shared
the protection OF just laws, the prescription
OF cruel ones, and witnessed tho rise and
progress OF both; they have used every
tongue, and have lived in ever latitude
The SHOWS of Lapland, have chilled, and
the suns Of Africa have scorched them
They have drunk Of the Tiber, the Thames
the Jordan, the Mississippi. In every cen
fury, md in every degree Of latitude, and
longitude, we fno Jew. 1t il not so with
any other race. Empires the most Illus
trious have fallen, and buried the men tibet
constructed them; but tho Jew has lived
among the ruins, q living monument ofin-
destructablity. Persecution has unsheath
cd the sword and lighted the fagot. Papal
superstition und Moslem barbarism have
smote them with unsparing ferocty, penal
rescripts and deep prejudice have visited
on them most unrighteous chastisement,
and notwithstanding all, they survive
Robert M Montgomery, in his Messiah,
thus expresses tho relative position Of tho
Jews:
Empires have sunk and Kingdoms passed away.
But STILL apart. sublime in misery. stands
Tho wreck of Israel, Christ has como and bed
And miracles around the cross
holy splendor of undying truth
Preserve: but yet their pinlng spirits look
For that nnrlsen sun which prophets hailed.
And when view him in the garb of wo,
wandering Outcast by the world disowned,
The haggard, lost, and long oppressed Jew.
HIS BLOOD DE ON US through my spirit rolls
In fearful echo from q nations lips.
Remembered Zion still for thee awaits
a future teemlng with irlumphal sounds
And shape of glory
Like their own bush on Mount Horeb,
Israel has Continued ia tho flames, but un-
consumed. They are the aristocracv Of
Scripture, ref Of their princes
in degradation. A BnbyIonian, Theban,
q Spartan; On Athenian, u Roman, are
names known in history only; their sha-
dows only haunt the world End flicker on
its tablets. A Jew walks every street,
dwells in every capital, traverses every
exchange, and relieves the monotony Of
the nations Of tho earth. The race has
Inherited the heirloom Of Immortality, in
capable of extinction or umal gamation. -
Like streamlets from a common head, and
composed OF waters Of a peculiar nature,
they have flowed along every stream, with
out blending wift it, or receiving its color
or flavor, md traversed the surface ef the
Globe, and the lapse OF centuries, peculiar
distinct and alone. The jewish race, at
this day, is perhaps the most striking seal
of the truth of the Sacred Oracles. There
is no possibility Of accounting for their
perpetual isolation, their depressed but dis
tncs being, or any ground save those re-
vcalcd in the records of truth Their ag
gregato and individual character is as re-
morkable as their circumstances Mean
ness the most abject, and pride the most
oyerbea rlng-the degradation of helots,
and yet conscious and a manifest sense Of
the dignity Of royal priesthood -c ROUGH
ing, squeezing, grasping on the exchange
in the shop. 10 tho world, with nothing
too low for them TO do, or too dirty, if
profitable, for them TO pick up and, not
withstanding, in the synagogue, look
ing back along many thousand years to
an ancestry, besides which that ofour kings
and princes, is but of yesterday, regarding
Justly, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as their
great progenitors, and pressing forward,
on the wings Of faith and hope and pro-
mise, to long expected day when they,
now kings and princes in disguise, shall
become so indeed, by a manifestation the
most glorious, and a dspensation the most
sublime, The people are perpetual mi
raclc--a living echo Of Heavens only
tones, prolonged from generation TO gene
ration.--Fra@er's Magazine.
Canal across the Lsthmus of Ddrien.-