Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-05-24
A PERPETUAL, MIRACLE.

INSCRIPTION OF mat wonderful people the
Jews, rs true as it is striking. lnGdels
ask for miracles; they have one, not ap-
pearlng to the eye in flash, aud then be-
coming a mere matter Of historic record;
but one standing out before all eyes, and
enduring 1900 years. If they believe
not upon miracle SO stupendous and in
dlsputable, neither would they be persua-
ded, though one were to raise from the
dead.
The present physical, moral and social
condition of the Jews must be a miracle
We can come 10 no other conclusion
Had they continued from the commence
mcnt Of the Christian era down TO the
present hour, in some such national state
as that in which we find the Chinese, wall
ed off from the rest of the human family,
and by their selishness on Il national scale,
ard their rcpuIsion Of alien elements, re-
s'sting every assault from without. in
shape of hostile invasion, and from an
overpowering national pride, forbidding
the Introduction Of new and foreign GUS
toms, we should not see so much Of mira
Gle interviewer with their existence. But
this is not their state; far from it, They
are neither Il united and Independent ma
ton, nor parasitic province. They are
pealed and scattered into fragments; but
like broken globules Of quicksilver, instinct
with cohesive power, ever claiming affini-
ty. and ever ready to anal gimatc. Gcog-
raphy, arms, genius, politics, aud foreign
help, do not explain their existence: time
and climate, and customs equally fail to
unravel it. Meme Of these are or can be
springs Of their perpetrty They have
been spread over every part Of the habta-
BILE globe; have lived under the reign of
every dynasty; they have shared the pro-
lection o. just laws, the oppression of cruel
ones. and witnessed the rise and progress
of both; they have used every tongue, and
have lived in every latitude. The SHOWS
Of LapIand have chilled, and the suns of
Africa has scorched them. They have
drank Of the Tibar, the Thames, the Jor-
dan, the Mississippi. In every country
and in every degree Of latitude and longi-
tude, we find Jew 1t is not so with any
other race. Empires the most illustrious,
have fallen, and buried the men that con-
! structcd lhcm but the Jews have lived
| among the ruins, Il living monument Of in
destructibity. Persecution has unsheath-
cd the sword, and lighted the laggol Pa.
pal superstition and Noslem barbarian SIN
have smotc them with unsparing ferocity;
penal rescrpts and deep prejudice have
visited on them most unrighteous chastise-
ment; and Notwithstanding all, they sur
| ylve. Like their own bush on mount IIo-
! rcb, IsreaI has continued in the flames un-
consumed. They are the aristocracy Of
scripture, rclt Of comets; princes in deg
relation. a Babylonian, Il Theban, Il
| Spartan, an Athenian, Roman are names
known in hosiery only; their shadows
alone haunt the world, and flicker on its
tablets. A Jew walks every street, dwcIs
in every exchange, and relieves the mo-
notony of nations of the earth. The race
| has inherited the heirloom of immortality
incapable Of extinction or amalgamation.
Like strcamcts from common head, and
composed OF water of peculiar nature,
they have flowed along every stream,
without blending with it, or receiving its
color or It's flavor, and travcrsed the sur
face of the globe, amid the lapse of many
centuries, peculiar, distinct, alone. The
Jewish race, at this day, is perhaps the
most striking seal Of the truth Of sacred
o:acles. There is no possibility of ac-
counting for their perpetual isolations their
depressed but distinct being, on any grounds
save those revealed in the records ortruth.
New WAY or GETTING CANE.---An
English gentlemen was recently walking
under the Arcades of the Rue di Rivoli, in
Paris, holding in his hand gold head
cane fspcndid workmanship; man sup
ported by two crutches came up and asked
him for aims in mysterious manner and