The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-04
JEWISH DISABILITIES IN ENGLAND.

JEWISH DISABILITIES In ENoLAnD'
We have heretofore taken occasion 10 "o"o'
the remarks of that pious and enlig htened oh'''
,iaa, the Earl of Shaftesbury, 10 the -
Lords, upon the subject indicated oy '''e "ea.
inr of this article. Forgetting, or no' e"oo''"s
m remember. that the religion OF Chf's' 70 ue''
ind according TO the whole tenor oil scrip u'e'
,crrsxs;l over every other, his pious soui IL
.ri,ated with the utmost cons'efha''oh' ""e"
;,;.n,,osed TO place a class OF men who pay
h..vv ,.xes. are not exempt from military ser
vice. are liable TO their share IN all inc our'nehs
Of government, and are by no means behind
~. rest of the world in intelligence and virtue,
ON /, faoting with other subjects of the Queen,
and forthwith he sees the downfall Of the
church. Really, for go devout christian, this
distinguished Peer seems 10 have marvellous.
~ little faith.
OF all methods which il is possible to pur.
sue in order to confirm man in any faith, that
of prosecuting it, or prosecuting him for the
sake of il, is the most certain Of success. Every
christian believes that il is his duty TO convert
the Jew If he can. Every ma Of sense knows
that conversion was never yet effected by per
secu,ion. And yet, with stupid blindness to
the lessons of experience, England, in the
middle of the nineteenth century, perseveres in
a course of prescription towards the Jews
that would not have been discreditable TO
King John and his Barons in the beginning
OF the thirteenth, or TO Philip III. and his
inqusition, in the middle of the sixteenth
century. How are the Jews ever TO be con-
veited, if conversion be an object as it ought
10 be, while they are isolated from the rest
of the world as they have been here,ofore!-
That very isolation has kept them a separate
eeople, and it was first instituted for that very
purpose. For more than eighteen centuries il
has continued to offer an insuperable barrier to
all attempts at conversion. sensible man it
appears TO US, seeing the obstacle, would en-
deavor to remove it. Lerd Shaftesbary and
his followers seem to take pleasure in render
ing it as impossible as possible.
Apart from religious considerations, there
are no truer patriots than the Jews, taken as a
body-there is no class of men which has con-
ributed more to the cause of science, letters
and civilization. Their bankers hold The
purse.strings of the world-many of them gil
Offices of the highest distinction on the cont
nent of Europe. Some of the profoundest
scholars in the world are to be found in their
ranks. Yet, in enlightened England they are
placed upon exactly the same footing with the
Hottentots, the Bushmen, the savages Of Tim
buctoo, or the Gold Coast. England can send
missionaries to all quarters OF the globe to con-
vert the heathen-she can NEEDLE in every bo-
dy's business, and lag down the law for every
body's government-she can weep for the OPP
pressions of the slaves in the United States,
and extend her protection to the miserable ma
tives Of Central America--but for the Jew
the enlightened, intelligent, patriotic Jew-the
elder brother of the christian, believing in the
same God with the Englshman, speaking the
same language, wearing the same dress, edu.
Gated in the same political faith-she has no
bowels of compassion. Out upon such vile,
pharisaical hypocrisy