The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-29

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of the rich Rothschilds has offered one thousand
francs Gust two hundred dollars!) to write his
tory of the Hebrew people. Only think what
grand compensation this must be when we know
that the booksellers of Paris have given to that
most able statesman and learned historian, nj
Theirs, five hundred thousand francs, or one hum
bred thousand dollars, to write the history of only
one Frenchnlan, but who certainly was a very
great man. Only for writing his history and the
contemporary circumstances with which he was
connected they pay half a million.
We imagine that Mr.. Rothschild must just
have been reading the travels OF Nj. Barrow,
who was employed by the tractarans TO carry
bibles into Spain, and who writes in his wonderful
book, patronized in London by the society for
turning Jews into Christians, that tho Jews IN
manners, habits, social life, and requirements like
gipsies, or those travelling houseless cheats and
robbers of that name.
| have thought how much it might be regretted
that Barrow had not lived in the time of the lac
girer, as he might have reasoned with the divine
spirit to have made choice of gpsies in the place
of Abraham and the faithful TO disseminate the
holy laws and the divine will. 1t is probable Mr..
Barrow must have thought somewhat of it while
he was carrying bibles written solely by those
very Jews, and in the Hebrew language, and not
by those robbing gipsies who seemed the only
mortals with whom he could compare the authors
of the Holy Scriptures.
But let us go back to our rich Mr.. Kothschd,
| and see how well informed he must have been
the subject about which he was going to give his
grand notice. Had he first consulted the learned
and grand Rabbi Audler he perhaps could have
enlightened him regarding few of the following
facts:
| That there was such work as that of the most
learned Bartoiloci, in six large folio volumes,
printed under the inspection OF the Roman Gov
eminent on the finest vellum paper, in l69O-He-
brew and Latina work occupying the author
thirteen years of great labor. This contains sim
ply the titles and descriptions of the works of He
brew authors, in the form of dictionary. / know
of only one copy of this great work in a private
library in the United States it was had from the
sale of the catalogue of the valuable library of
Lord Oxford, and procured by the learned Rev.
DR.. Schroeder, late rector of St. Paul's, New
York.
Perhaps this rich banker did not know of the
other work, in four volumes quarto, by the most
learned WolGus, printed 1890 to 17l0-Latin and
Hebrew work occupying him twenty years OF
close study This work contains an account Of
three thousand authors and their writings, which
were known up to that period printed as well as
those in manuscript unpublished, as found in the
Vatican at Rome.
| Perhaps they are alike ignorant of another work
well known to the learned of the last century
tThe History by the great Basnage; he was
obliged to leave France, his native country, in
order to print this history with true mpartiality
and take up his abode in Amsterdam, where,
with the assistance fmany the most learned He
brews then in Europe, he published after a labor
of more than twenty years, that valuable compi-
lation. 1t was translated into English by Bishop
Taylor, of London, in l704, Of which l know of
only two copies in the United States, exclusive of
the one in the Congress Library; the one now
owned by DIR. Schroeder of New York, and the
one by MIR. Solomon, at present sojourning in this
city
It was from this work almost verbatim that
the editors of the Great Universal History, in
sixty-six volumes octave, made up their thir-
teenth volume, containing the History of the
Jews since their Dispersion. This Universal His
tory, the most valuable and scarce work of the
day, was published in 1756 to ITO. There are
not three copies in all the public or private libra
ries of New York or Philadelphia, and none that
have ever found in bookstore in the United
States. allade to the modern part, in forty -four
thick volumes.
BY looking closely into Milman's History, in
third volume, small l2mo., and comparing it with
the thirteenth volume of Modern Universal History
of the edition of 1854, London, the plagiarism will
be complete, except his last forty or fifty
pages, containing most meagre account Of He
brew history and of their distinguished nstrono-
mers, physicians, philologsts, and politicians and
philosophers, to the time of publication.
1t may not be generally known that the profess
sors of the ancient Hebrew faith are in France,
Holland, and parts of Germany and Prussia,
more generally patroniZed and promoted than
either in England or the United States. In Eng
land we see, to be Jew is thought to be incapa-
bic of being legislator or judicial character In
America, the two deputies that were in our Ma
tional Legislature became apostates before cleo
ton. Although at the present moment we must ad
nit that gentleman of the highest intelligence
and profound jurist has succeeded Mr.. Soule,
without becoming an apostatc.
In France, since the first government of Napo-
leon in 1900, Jews have been selected for mayors,
Judges royal advocates of the courts, ministers of
State, &C., &C. Also in Holland, where the Pro-
testant government and king has placed in the
courts of justice, particularly IN Amsterdam, the
full proportion of Hebrews when compared to the
number of Christians Often it is seen that suit
ors in those courts select Hebrew Judge, be-
cause he eXpounds according to the Kosher .Mish
nat or oral law from the Talmud, considered by
honest litigants nfallible as the late Napoleon
Code, the favored law for nearly half century of
western continental Europe.
1t may be proper to notice another remarkable
fact advcrted to by that mammoth of learning
and law, Lord Broughan, in his speeches on the
admission of Jews into Parliament. 1t was
that their capacity and moral qualifications were
found so transcendant i'll large portion of Ger
many--say Pr,tssia--that in the capital of that
kingdom, Berlin, out of nearly seventy professor
ships and chairs of learning in the universities and
| learned corporations, nearly sixty were found
filled by selections from subjects born of the He-
brew people Where is there nation in modern
times SO noted for general education and learn
ing us the Prussans-their constitution prohibit
ing any but men of the best education from occu-
plying posts under the government al are eli
gible, according to capacity, from constable to
| prime minister
| In that kingdom every child (not an IDIOT is
obliged to become scholar, under the penalty of a
fine on the parent. The cost of tuition is nominal
| We had almost again forgotten great
Mecenas RothschiId; but we will close with an ad-
vice to him to hide his ignorance about those mat
tiers in which his ambition has no aspiration Let