Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-30
(from the Congregational Journal I
Position and Influence OF the Jews.

From the Congregational Jour,.all
Position and Influence Of the Jews.
The existence of the Jews is the living
miracle of the world. They are scattered
and down trodden, and yet, according to
the most accurate statistics, are as numer-
Gus as they were when they left the land
of Egypt; the returns made to Bonaparte.
giving about three millions. Expatriated,
they become citizens of the world; and
wherever tolerated they commence traffic
and become thrifty. Everywhere they are
at home. They may be banished, but
cannot be expelled be trodden down,
yet cannot be crushed. Only in the Uni
ted States, France, Holland, and Prussia.
are they fully citizens but in spite of
British statutes, the Russian ukas and
Turkish curse, they prosper still. The
great nations of antiquity, the Egyptians,
and Assyrians, the Romans and Saracens.
as well as the modern Turks and Christ
ians, have attempted to destroy them, but
in vain; while penal laws and cruel tor
lures have only served to increase their
number and reinforce their obstinacv.
But the Jews exist not only monu-
mcnt and miracle: Jewish mind has
eXcrted a powerful influence on the world.
Favored by Napoleon, the Hebrew race at
once developed power which had never
been suspected. Soult, Ney, and Masscna,
who thus altered his name from Mannas-
sab, to escape the odium, of being an Is
raelitc, were all Marshals of France under
the eye OF the greatest warrior of his age
In politics, the Jews have Metternich in
Austria, DIsraeli in England, convert
to the Christian faith, while the Autocrat
of Russia has had Jew for his confiden-
tial counsellor, and Spain Prime Minis
ter of the same race, and Russia her Min
lister of Finance. In the United States,
Jews begin to figure in our national coun-
cils; Mr.. Iulee, late member of the Sem
ate, and MIR. Soule, recently Senator from
Louisiana, being Of the Hebrew stock
MIR. CrcmieuX, one of the most eminent
lawyers of France, was what we should
call the Attorney General upon the flight
of Louis Philippe
In money power the Jews hold in their
hands the destiny Of kingdoms and chi
pircs, whose government become bank
rupt, and their sovercigns turn bcegars at
Hebrews nod. Half dozen Jews can
do more to preserve the peace of Europe
by sitting behind their desk, and persist
ingly say Z" No. - to the royal applicants
fer money, than all the Peace Congresses
and Conventions in Christendom. The
Rothschilds, the Barings, and Sir John
Montotiere, are all Jews, and with their
banking establishments scattered over
Europe and Asia. WELD sceptre more
powerful than monarchS can hold.
Coming to the literary profession, ard
inquiring into the lineage of many Of most
distinguished scholars and men Of science
we find the Jews prominent here as we'll
as in active life. The most renowned in
Astronomy have been Jews, as the Her
schels in England, and Arago in Franco,
the Astronomer under Louis Philippe,
and who has filled the world with his
fame. Those German works which are
deluging the world, are for the most part
the productions of ChristianiZed Jews, as
those Of Hengstenberg, Tholuck, Schleir-
macher, Gresenius, Neander, Niebuhr, and
others, whose learned treatises, Biblical
criticisms, didactic theology and general
sacred literature, are found in the library
of every Theological Seminary, and in the
hands Of every Theological student.
Spnoza, the famous infidel, was a Jew,
and so are Ronge and Czerski, who took
the lead Of a new religious reformation in
Germany in our day.
Such have been and are the Jews.
Mysterious nation Inexplicable enigma !.
A living perpetually omnipresent miracle.
A race so indomitable, SO imperishable,
must have been raised up and preserved
for some grand purpose.