Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1842-01-22
THE Jews.

The present physical moral and social
: condition OF tho Jews must be miracle
We can come 10 no other conclusion. Hat
they continued from the commencement
OF the christion era down 10 the presen
hour, in some such national state in whct
we find the Chinese, walled off from the
rest Of the human family, aud by their
sell shness on national scale, and their
repulslon Of alien elements, resisting ev-
cry assault from without, in the shape Of
hostile invasion, and from an overpower-
ing national pride forbiding the introduce
tioe ofnew aud foreign customs we should
not sec much miracls interviewer with
their existence. But this is moi their
state far from it. They are neither u
united and independent nation, nor par
astic province. They are peeled, and
scattered into fragments but like bro
ken globuIes of quicksilver, instinct with
cohesive power, ever claiming with al
finty, aud ever reedy TO amalgamale -
Geography, arms, genius, politics, and
foreign help, do not explain their exis
tence time, and climate, and customs
equally fail to unravel it. None OF these
are or can be springs Of their perpetuty.
Fhcy have been spread over every part
OF the habitablc globe have lived under
every dynasty have shared the proecN
ton of just laws, the oppression of cruel
ones, and witnessed the rise and progress
Of both they have used every tongue
and lived in every latitude. The SHOWS
OF LapIand have chilled, and the suns OF
Africa have scorched them. They have
drank of the Tiber, the Thames, the
Jordan, the Mississippi. 10 every coun
try and in every degree Of latitude and
longitude, we find Jew. 1t is not so with |
any other race, Empires the most Illus
trlous have fallen, and buried men that
constructed them, but the Jews have lived
among the ruins, n living monument OF
indestructibility. Persecution has IN
sheated the sword and lighted the faggot;
PaPal superstition and Moslen barbarlsm
have smoie them with unsparng ierocily;
penal rescripts and deep prejudice have
visited on them most unrlghtoous chaS"
llsement-and, Notwithstanding all they
survive.
Like their own bush on Mount Horeb,
Israel has continued in the flames, but
lnconsumed. They are the arlsto;racy
81 scripture, left of coronet-princes in
degradation. A Babylonian Thoban,
Spartan, an Athenian, Roman, are
names known to US in history only -
heir shadows alone haunt the world
md flicker on itS tablets. A Jew walks
very street, dwels in every capitol, ira.
'erseS every exchang &C, and relieves the
nonotony Of the nations Of the earth.--
he race has inherited the heir loom of
incapable Of extinction or
Imagination. Like streamlets from
ommon head, and composed OF waters OF Q
ocular nature, they have flowed along I
very stream, without blending with
!, or receiving its color or flavor, and ira 3
ersed the surface Of the globe, amid the /
iPse OF many centuries, peculiar, distinct
lone. The JEWS race at this day is per- G
APPS the most striking seal Of the truth
The Sacred Oracles. There is 20 pos
bllity of accounting for their isoIatlons,
ler depressed but distinct being, on any
round save those revealed in the re-
ords Of truth.