The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-17

from the Boston Courier June TO-
THE JEWS IN PALESTINE
Recent from the Holy Land represent the con
duon OF the Jews in that country amentabe and
there is abundant evidence that these people are suffering
great distress nom desuton Their suerngs have been
occasoned partly by the failure of the harvest which
has raised the price OF food TO height and
partly by the present and political disturbances and
the dminuon OF the for the support of the poor
derived nom other countries These eoptrbutions-he
greater part OF which furnished by Russa-are
almost entirely off and these causes destution have
resulted IN famine aggravated TO fearful degree by sick
ness from hunger and distress under which the country
now suffering 10 an unparalleled extent
An eminent Hebrew Of London, Sir Moses Montefore
who has lately returned from visit TO Palestine has pub
shed in the London papers appeal behalf of his
Vanishing countrmen In letter addressed TO Dr. Adler
Of London, he says;
For the sake of Zion cannot remain silent and for the
sake OF Jerusalem cannot rest until the whole house of
Israel have been made acquainted with the amentabe
don OF those OF our brethren who devoedly cling the
soil sacred TO the memory of patrarchs prophets and
kings
Thrice having visited the Holy Land it was my earn
est desire fully TO inform myself the condition of
brethren there for whom my deepest feelings of commiser
alton were excited in regard TO the amount of misery
dured by them
Poverty in the East differs vastly from the like caami-
ty experienced in western Europe inasmuch as the capa-
bity TO relieve Is in the East confined within the
est bounds and restricted TO very limited number Such
being the general outline of the condition Of brethren
in Judea my feelings most naturally aroused in their
behalf
ed when, as inform you, that from the narrowing nel
gence it has been my painful lot to receive, learn that
fathers in lsraemen profoundly learned in the law who
SO that they may die near the graves OF toreiahes
submit TO live in the most abect povertyare impe-
led by the very love they bear their children sell them
to the stranger so their own words that their off
spring may be spared deathdeath from starvation
The Hebrews Of Jerusalem have also issued Appeal
to the Congregations of Great Britain and America" The
following extracts: .....
Ye sunken gates of Zion be exalted and receive within
the portals thereof your elders and your wardens, who
trumpetongued shall proclaim that the staff of bread is
broken, and the stay of water is wasted
Assemble ye scribes and publish the history Of famine
and peslence that il may be borne to the remotest
munitics of Israel and become the written messenger of the
distress of the ndwecrs of Zion that it may thereby
ken nations sympathes and il misery has dried up
the Of eoquence wherewith to sustain your APP
peal suppicate the Almighty that He in His mercy may
incline the hearts of your brethren of the house of ia
cob to hasten to relieve the anguish of your dropping
spirits.
Brethren of the house of Israel who sojourn in happy
England and America yourselves and from
initiation the remnant of the faithful watchers OF Zion and
Jerusalem.
awe lack the power to give even faint idea of the mis-
cry endurng every heart has become SICK every
tongue stricken dumb.
Behold utterly Frustrated, both in mind and in
body incompetent TO proclaim the severity OF the visitation
that is consuming
Starvation and peslence walk hand in hand and the
wall of the poor the widow and the orphan borne
the air 1t is difficult to say whose suierings are the
miseres of those born under the sun of Ju
dea, of the holy pilgrims from distant lands All
classes Of society all grades and conditions have become
united in the brotherhood of wo; heads of ynagogue and
their pious seryor learned rabbs and their scholars mix
in the crowd TO suppcae and beg mouldy crust Even
that assistance which has hitherto reached from our
brethren In the Russian and Turkish dominons now in
consequence of the war cut oft
The dearth has raised the price of food
height and its results state of anarchy and confusion
in which every mans hand is raised against his brother
and violence is becoming rife in the land for who
endure with accomplishing forude that horrible death
death by famneand day by day the wife of his youth
and the children of his love sink into the grave without
effort to relieve them
"Brethren If you could but witness the misery we are
endnring-he widow running to and fro, asking the
fuse of food for her starving orphans and profoundly
learned in the law, formerly through their abundant
charity the stay Of the community wandering up and
down the of Jerusalem seeking aims aye seeking
bread-your hearts would melt in compassion.
Already, dreadful TO relate the father tratcs for the
sale OF his child TO the stranger that his offspring may
be spared death from starvation for be known that the
suerngs of nation here in all the rghtful horrors
which at present exist, have never been surpassed"
We have the best that this appalling picture
of wrechedness and suffering is not exaggerated and that
the condition Of the Jews in Palestine this Is
such 70 deserve the practical sympathy Of those 10 whom
their appeal is addressed II is to he hoped that in
favored land-uncursed with war; unyised by fam
inc peslence but Astounding in the wealth and comfort
secured by peace and good goyeramentths appeal will
not be made in vain II strikes that IL certain Amer
cergymea preach Tomorrow the doctrines Of
true Christian charity the subject Of this most touching
invocation instead Of exetng themselves stir up party
strife and add gall and bitterness the political ami
moses Of the country they would approach vastly
to the true discharge of their sacred functions than they
now in the habit Of doing.