The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-02-19

IL present phy Slcal, mOfdt and Sc
lclal condition of the Jews must be
miracle. We can come to no other con-
Eclusion. Had they continued from the
commencement Of the christian era
down to the present hour, in some such
nationaLsiate ia which We find the Chi
nese, walled off froh. rest Of The hu.
man family, and BY thse seIfishness %
q national scale, and thu repulsion oG
alien elements, resisting every assault
from without, in the shape Of hostile in.
yasion, and from an overpowefine ma.
tional pride forbidding the introduction.
OF new and foreign customs, we should
not see much miracle interviewer with
their existence But this is not their
state: far 'front.'. They are neither
united and Independent nation, nor 4
parasite province. They arc peeled.
and scattered into fragments; but like
broken globules Of quicksilver, instinct
with cohesive power, ever claiming.
with affinity, and ever ready to anialga-
mate. Geography, arms. genius, poll
tics, and foreign help, do not explain.
their existence; time, and climate, and
customs equally fail to unraveIii. None
of these are or can be springs of their
perpetuity The have been spread over
every part Of the habitabIe globe; have
lived under every dynasty; have shar-
ed the protection Of just laws, the OPP
PfesslonO OF cruel ones, and Witnessed the
rise and progress Of both; they have US
edevery tongue and lived ia every lati-
tude. The SHOWS Of LapIand have chill
ed, and the suns Of Africa have scorch-
ed them. They have drank Of the Ii
Der, the Thames, the Jordan. the Missis-
siPPi In every country and in every de-
greeof latitude and longitude, we find d
Jew L is not so with any other race.
Empires the most ilIustrious have fallen,
and buried men that constructed them,
but the jews have lived among the ruins,
a living monument Of indestruclibiiity.
Persecution has unsheathed the sword
and the lighted faggOt; Papal superstition
and Moslem barbarism have smote them
with unsparing ferocity; penal re-
scripts and deep prejudice have vis-
tied on them most righieous chash Sc
mcnt- land, notwithstanding all, they
survive.
Like their own bush on Mount Horeb,
israel has continued in the flames, but
.uuconsumed. They are the aristocra-
cy Of scripture, ref Of princes
in degradation. Babylorian, a The
ban, q Spartan an Armenian. Roman,
are names known to IS in history only
their shadows alone haunt the world
and flicker on its tablets. a Jew walks
every street, dwells in every capitol,
traverses every exchange, and relieves
The nonctony Of the nations Of the
earth. The race has inherited the heir
loom Of Immortality, incapable Of ex-
|tinction or amaIgotion: Like streamIets
from d common head, and composed Of
waters Of peculiar nature, they have
flowed along every stream, without
blending with il, Of receiving its color
or favor and traversed the surface Of
the globe, mid the lapse Of many cen.
turtles pecuiiuf, distinct, alone: The
Jewish race At this day Is perhaps The
most striking seal Of the truth Of the
Sacred OracIes There Is no possibili-
~ Of accounting for their isoEations,
their depressed but distinct being, on any
ground save those revealed ia The record
Of truth.
DELAWARE.