Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-10-28

The Jemsr-fLe present physical, moral,
and social aondl;I i'm Of tie Jews must be a
II lFacie. We can come 10 No other ~cncG-
sion. Had they continued from the colr-
meicetnent oftfIe Christian Era down to the
present hour, in some sucl, national state -
which we find the Chinese-wallcd off from
the test of the human family, and by their
selfishness on a national scale, and their re-
| pulgion ut Hilen elements, resisting every
assault from without in the shane Of hostile
tnyastofi, and from an oyefpowering national
pride fprbidding The Introduction of new and
foreign customs-we should not see so much
miracle interviewer with their existence.
But this is not Their state-far from il: they
are Mother an united nor independent nation,
nor yet a parasitic province. They are peel
ed and. scattered into fragments; but, like
broken globuleso of quicksilver, instinct with
a cohesive power, ever claiming affinity, are
ever ready TO ainalgamate. Geography
arms, genius, politics and foreign help
do not explain their existence. Time, and
climate, and customs equally fail TO @unravel
It.-None OF these are, or can be, springs of
their perpetuitv. They have spread over
every part Of the habitable globe-havc lived
under the reign of every dynasty; they have
used every tongue, and tivedin every latitude.
The SHOWS of Lapland have chilled and the
suns Of Africa scorched them. They have
drank Of the Tiber, the Thames, the Jordan
and the Mississippi. In every country, and
in every degree Of latitude aud longitude we
find a Jew. ae~ -aa-mtS. -
1t Is not SO with any other race. Empires
the most ilIuslrious have fallen, and buried
men who constructed them; but the Jews
have lived among the ruins, a. living monu-
ment of indistructibility! Persecution has
unsheathed the sword and lighted the fagot
-Papal superstition and Mosiem barbarism
have smitten them with unspairing ~ferocity
penal prescripts and deep prejudice have
visited on them the most ungenerous debase-
inent-and notwithstanding all, they survive.
Like their own bush on Mount Horeh, Isra-
ell has continued in the flames, but uncon-
sumed.-They are the aristocracy Of scripture
let off coroncts--princes in degradation.
a Babylonlan, "a Theban, a Spartan, an
Athenian, a Roman, are names known to his
tory only; their shadows alone haunt the
world and flicker its tablets. A Jew walks
every street, dwells in every capital, traver-
SOS every exchange, and relieves the monot-
ony Of The nations Of the earth. The race
has inherited the heirloom Of mortality, in
capable Of extinction or a~malgamaiinn. Like
streamlefs from q common head, and composed
of waters of peculiar nature, they have fow-
ed along every stream without blending
with it, or receiving its flavor, and ~traversed
the surface of the Globe amid the lapse, of
centuries, distinct-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
tinct being, on any ground save those reveal
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