The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-27

ways ofinsidious approaches Of dangerous articles
and malignant tampsrngs, which without violence
wouli have all the effect Of active hostility? Aud In
these, weuld the Jew be for or against u.s.
But there Is u still solemn consideration God
Furnishes those who abuse his gifts neglect his trusts
Professionalism Is both gift and trust and Of the most
invaluable order Must there not be public h ana per
dsreaarding them for thing worldly contingent and
paltry AZ political convenience! The Jew OUTSIDE the
Legislature. no he may hate our religion ID power
less 10 1t but inside the legislature ne may
conspire,to its ruin II put weapon into the nand OF
an enemy, whom but ourselves can We blame LOT the
IL we do an which cannot be undone
what sympathy shall our ~alngs Deserve wnen we ieei
that have astuslly recruited for hostile faction
But having disposed Of the cant Of liberalism Let US
now turn to the dangerous cant OF securty
Is there to apprehend public evil from single
Jew or from q half Dozen at most, in parliament We
remember that exactly the same language used for
the admission Of the Pspsts. What harm can be done
by letting In ono or two Papsts they
half Dozen let them de what they will at the
hastings" Yet their votes and partissns amount
TO at least ffy they carry every object which they
determine to carry and they have crumbsd down ca
binets ike the discharge from battery
In the instance of the Jew the Is clear. They
have the means amons thsm Of coming to the busting.
but every body knows the nature of popular election
under the reform bill.
But then we are to trust to character - the ndivi-
dual in question Ia unsmbtious immersed In his own
affair afraid OF the sound Of his voice or Is
parliament phantom He may be all this or quite the
in Parliament with his whole sharp and craving commu-
nifty at his heels he must make an effort or ne will be
driven back to his counting house Or II he were
st fixed and silent q rock who shall answer
for his successors In instance OF party violence Is
the first man the true representative ne comes iai
dressed the evee bows he enters the presence
aad offers his petition with the air pleasing to the souls
Of lords In waiting His successor comes the sans Gu
ioe at the head Of his rabbe In the streets and
the palace stairs The Jew In Parliament will he
longer the emblem of sly that traver
Hounsditch History tells we'll the ferceness of
his day Of authority the daring zeslotry, the bitter
his national and the mortal venom OF his
personal vndictiveness those outbursts have seldom
occurred incur days, the loss OF political posi-
may be justly taken for the with every thing
to risk and nothing to GAIN can easily account for
quietude But give him that position, AXE him the
ade the the recruiting officer of party
i've him the hope Of seizDg pace-make his voice the
key note OF doubtful ssbate-make his party the prop
of tottering ministry. the champions of aspiring
oppositongive him the power OF carrying hfy votes
naif the number, the house. the uterers OF
the words OF life death to cabinet standing in the
what OF revenge spoliation, Of In
soent triumph rremediable evil, might they not de-
mand, aud might they not obtain !
We solemnly declare that much as we depreoae papst
think that all its hostility not TO be dread
cd the hundredth part 80 much as Political power IN
Jewish hands There would be no lazy braggadoca, no
riot of success OF the vulgar intoxicaon
goes sleep after the vctorywe should have the
steady sulsn cool antagonism whose sabtlsty never
slumbers
But there are other and important considerations.
The British empire extends over variety of cresds
the Christian legislature admits sect known as the
open antagonist Of Christianity, why not admit the
neutras Why not the Mahomstan! Why not the
Hndoo? Are they half much opposed to Christian
ity as the Jsw' We have conquered Chinese leland;
why not have parliamentary believer in the god Foh
and In his prophet Confuzee Ceylon is ours why re-
ject the votary of Boodh We have the Cape and
shall have the land Of the Caffre-why not admit
the wcrshpsr of the serpent the man who trembes
nso and the Malay Of Singapore are already basking
der the beams of the British neither will trou.
BILE u, with controversies why not compile them all
into one imperial representation They are fully as
honest the Jew, not much more ignorant and much
less likely to quarrel with US.
In the argsness Of this subject forced to pass
by multitude Of pressing considerations but there IL
to which we cannot avoid making some slight refer
ence-the actual state of the Jewish religion. Many
who have not attended to this subject evidently feel an
interest in the Jew the descendant of the original
receivers of the law mistaken and stiff cked genera
On this subject speak with perfect reverence, but
also with perfect TRUTH when say that il scarcely
possible to discover the religion Of Sinai in the jewish
ritual Of the present day their religion il rabbinism.
preccely the Except for Its additional
md inventons) that when the most sacred of all
to the Sadducee and the Phar
ee and the nation that they had made the law of Mo-
es of none effect by their traditions" The " oral
aw," wholly Evolutionary is now the law Of all the
Jews (the Ksrates, small sect, excepted Their lit
nrgy wholly formed Fl the oral law and Of its
aomments among an abundance Of trivialtes are dan
and perish through their wioksdness; and have no
part in the world to come" Among those thu.
demned forever are the Christians and Mshometans
But of the passages In the Tamud show the per-
sonal peril into which the oral law may condemn the
OF Kind.
is lawful says the Rabbi Eleazar to split open
the nostrs Of unlearned man the day of atone
ment, which fails on the Sabbath And his Disciples
said Rabbi rather that IL is lawful to slaughter him
The Rabbi replied, That would require benediction
but now no benediction Is needful.n
But must leave the subject to be treated by others
who have time assuring the reader that rabbnsm
Is q compilation very much in the following style
Rabbi Judah said, everything that God created IN
the world he created male and female AID thus he did
with Levathan the piercing serpent and Levathan the
crooked serpent he created them male and female But
entire world What then did the Holy one He took
away the strengh Of the male Levahan and slew the
female and sailed her for the righteous for the time
come -
And OF this kind is the scrptural @ knowledge Of
the mojern Jew. We really do not speak Of these
things in levity but in Difference the truth
show how distinct the follower of Rabbinsm is from the
follower of Moses.
We now close the subject. disavowing all hostility to
his admission into Chrsisn Parliament Is wholly in
constituent with common right, common duty, oom-
mon sepse How can we offer the homage Of either
est boon within power to sect who pronounce him
An impostor How can we respect his religion when
regard 1t matter Of total indifference whether
support It's friends encourage its enemies how
deserve to retain the inestimable privileges alike
spiritual aud temporal which We have received from
Christianity, when negently, or for personal
object, lay them at the mercy of the uni believer
What ought England to do at this moments 1t ought
give their solemn pledge to resist this
novson Its bishops ought to take the lead in those
meetings, and, instead OF waiting to make useless
speech the House of Lords forth and do their
duty like men
Mr.. Clay In England.
From the London Times, Dec a.
II nations da not all themselves Of the Lessons
read to them by the people OF the United States they
will be neglect one OF the most salutary examples
afforded by country for the benefit of all I'm
ust and dishonest orjgues huvo already produced
their fruits of popular embarrassments and ministerial
perpexities, and they are now rapidly tending to
tional confession and exposure BY the resolutions
bch published yesterday unanimously adopted at
numerous meeting Of American citizens upon the sd
Of one of their most respected countrymen It will
De with what spirit the measures Of the Washing
on Cabinet likely TO be oauvassed; and the
oondence given in another OF this days columns may
uppy Of ia ging how far Mr. Folks policy
Iii promote that personal success with view to which
t apparently calculated.
Matters psrplexing enough they stand for the
Americans played out their last d. and still
.e far ever from the game Mexico is conquered
country be conquered by arms, but 1t still
kind OF sembance the conquest the Americans
would make oft Now, however, Mr.. Polk has to jus
sify his task considerably difficult than
that Of directing it, and 1t will be by the report
refer to how very little disposition there Is the part
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