Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-08-24
From the Congregational Journal.
Position and Influence OF the Jews.

The existence of the Jews is the living mira
Gle of the world. They are scattered and1down-
trodden and yet, according to the mostaccurate
statistics, are as numer US as they were when
they left the land of Egypt, the returns made to
Bonaparte giving about three millions. Expa-
triated, they become citizens. of the world and
wherever tolerated, they commence traffic and be-
come thrifty. Every where they are at home
They may be baNished, but cannot be expelled;
be trodden down, yet cannot be crushed. Only
in the United States, France, Holland and Prus-
sia are they fully citizens; but in spite of British
statutes, the Russian ukase and Turkish curse,
they prosper still. The great nations of antiqui-
ty, the Egyptians and Assyr:an the Romans and
Saracens, as well the modern Turks and
Christians, have attempted to destroy them, but
in vain; while penal laws and cruel tortures have
only served to increase their number and reinforce
their obstinacy.
But the Jews exist not only as a monument
and miracle: Jewish mind has exerted power
full influence on the world. Favored by Napo.
leon, the Hebrew race at once developed power
which had never been suspected. Soult, Ney.
and Massena, who thus altered his name from
Mannassah, to escape the odium of being an Is.
raeite, were all Marshals of France under the
eye of the greatest warriors of his age. In poll
tics the Jews have Metternich in Austria, DIS.
rael in England, convert to the Christian
faith, while the Autocrat of Russia has had
Jew for his confidential counsellor, and Spain
Prime Minister of the same race, and Russia her
Minister of Finance. In the United States, Jews
begin to figure in national councils; Mr.. Yuee,
Io@o H. al
ly Senator from Louisiana, being of the Hebrew
stock. Mr.. Cremieux, one Of the most eminent
lawyers of France, was what we should call Attor.
ney General upon the flight of Louis Philippe.
In money power the Jews hold in their hands
the destiny of Kingdoms and empires, whose gov
ernments become bankrupt, and their soveregns
turn beggars at Hebrews nod. Half dozen
Jews can do more to preserve the peace Of Europe
by sitting behind their desks, and persistingly say.
ing No! to the royal applicants for money, than all
the Peace Congresses and Conventions in Chris
tendon The Rothschilds, the Barings and Sir
John Montefiere, are all Jews, and with their
banking establishments scattered over Europe and
Asia. WELD sceptre more powerful than mon.
archs hold.
Coming to the literary profession, and inquiring
HIIo tue lHedSc VI VI IlOSl
scholars and men of science, we find the Jews
prominent here well as in active life. The
most renowned in Astronomy have been the Jews,
as the Herschels in England and Arago in France,
the Astronomer Royal under Louis Philippe, and
who has filled the world with his fame Those
German works which are delugng the world are
for the most part the production of Christianized
Jews, as those of Hengstenberg. Tholuck,
Schleirmacher, Gresenius, Neander, Niebuhr, and
others, whose learned treatses. 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 infdeL was Jew,
and SO are Ronge and Czerski, who took the lead
ola new religious reformation in Germany in our
day.
Such have been and are the Jews. Mysterious
nation! Inexplicabe enigma! living, per-
petually omnpresent miracle. A race so indom-
itablesso mpershable, must have been raised up
and preserved for some grand purpose. 2"