The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-02-01
JERUSALEM AT THE PASSOVER.

The following beautiful passage is extracted
from +" Saathel," the last great work Of the Rev.
Mr.. Croley. 1t is The most striking and effective
description of the renowned city we have ever
read and it si givensas the language, and in
tends to pourtray the feelings Of the !" Wander
ing Jew" who, for one act Of cruelty to the Sa-
viour of the world. had been exiled from home,
friends, and happiness; 81 4,s iii I /. f. gti u ].
"On those days the Roman guard We're with
drawn; / assembled the battlelnents; the con-
course gathered there to hook upon the entrance
Of the, tribe fixed me to- the spot. Of allsihe
strange and magnificent sights of earth, this EN-.
trance was the most fitted to swell the national
pride of country and religion. The dispersion
ordained by Heaven for JUDGMENT on the crimes
of our idolatrous kings had, instie wonder-work-
ing power by which good is brought out, Of evil,
planted our law in the remotest extremities Of
the world. Among it's proselytes were the mighty
Of all regions, the military lenders, the sages, the
kings all, at least once in their lives, coming to-
pay homage to the great central city Of the faith,
and all coming with the pomp and attendance Of
their rank. The procession amounted to num-
Der which threw all after times into the shade
Three millions of people have been counted at
the Passover The diyersities ofsthe multitude
were still more striking Every race Of mankind,
in its most marked pecularities, there passed be-
meath the eye
II There came the long train Of swarthy slaves and
snenials round the chariot Of the Indian prince,
clothed in the silks and jewels Of the regions be-
yond the Ganges. Upon them pressed the troop
of African lion hunters, half naked, but with their
black limbs wreathed with pearl and fragments
of unwrought gold. Behind them moved on their
camels patriarchal group, the Arab Sheik, a
venerable figure with his white locks flowing
from beneath his turban, leading his sons, like
our father Abraham, from the wilderness to the
Mount Of Vision. Then rolled on the glitterng
chariot Of the Assyrian chieftain, regal show Of
purple and gems, and conveyed by horsemen CO.
vered with armor. The Sythian Jews, wrapped
n the furs of wolf and BEAR iron men of the
north the noble Greek, the perfection of the hu-
man form, with his countenance beaming the ge-
MUS beauty of his country the broad and yel-
low features of the Chinese rabbins the fair
skins and gigantic forms of the German tribes !;
strange clusters of men unknown to the limits Of
Europe or Asia, with their black locks, complex
ions of the color of gold, and slight yet sinewy
limbs, marked with figures Of suns and s.ars
struck into the flesh marched crowd on crowd ;
and in strong contrast with all, the Italian on the
charger or the chariot. urging the living stream
to the right and left with the haughtiness of the
acknowledged master of mankind. The repre-
sentative OF world was before me.
But all of those distinctive marks of country
and pursuit, though palpably ineradcable by
human means, were deeply overpowered and min
gled by the one grand impression Of the place and
the time. In their presence was the City OF Ho-
illness the Hill Of Zion lifted up its palaces;
above it assembled, like another city, in higher
region of the air, that TEMPLE to whose majesty
the world could show no equal, to which the eyes
of the believer were turned from the uttermost
parts of earth, in whose courts Solomon. the king
of earthly kings for wisdom, had called down the
blessing Of the Most High, and It had descended
on the altar in fire in whose sanctuary the Lord
whom heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot
contain, was yet to make his throne. and give
glory to his people. is ..gal "a 4. n, III. I.
Oh Jerusaem,. Jerusalem! when ! think Of
what saw thee then, and of what have since
seen thee, the spoiled, the desolate, the utterly
put to shame when l have seen the Roman
plough driven through the soil on which stood the
HOLY of Holics; the Saracen destroying even its
rims the last, worst devsstator the barbarian Of
the Caucasus the rufIian Turk. sitting in grim
scorn upon the towers of the city OF David; vio-
latng the tombs Of the prophet and the king;