Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-09-08
Peaitk0n and InHluenco OF the jews.
! From the Congregational Journal.l

From the Congregational Journal
The existence of the Jews is the living miracle
Of the world. They are scattered and down-trod-
den. and vel, according to the most accurate statis-
tics. are as numerous as they were when they left
the land Of Egypt, the returns made to Bonaparte
giving about three millions. Expatriated, they be-
come citizens of the world; and wherever ~tolerat-
ed they m traffic and became thrifty. Every
where they are at home. They may be banished,
but cannot be expelled; be trodden down, ye, can
not be crushed. Only in the United States,
Franco, Holland, and Prussia, are they fully citi-
zens; but in spite of British statutes, the Russian
ukase aud 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 Christians, have attempted
to destroy them, but in vain; while penal laws and
cruel tormres have only served to increase their
numbers and reinforce their obstinacy.
But the Jew exists, not only as a monument and
a miracle; Jewish mind has exerted a powerful in>
f1uence on the world. Favored by Napoleon, the
Hebrew race at once developed power which had
never been suspected. Soult, Ney, and Massena,
who thus altered his name from Manassah, to f.
cape the odium of being an ~Israe.ite. were all
Of France under the eye of the greatest
warrior Of his age. In politics the Jews have
Metternich. in Austria, D'Israeli in England, a
convert to the Christian faith, while the Autocrat
of Russia has had a Jew for his confidential coun-
sellor, and Spain a Prime Minister Of the same
sooa onI p,,-.o ho. I,n:,so - E:~c,.o T~slo
United States, Jews begin to figure in our national
Mr.. Yulee, late member of the House
and Mr.. Benjamin. Senator from Louisiana, being
of the Hebrew stock. Mr.. Cremleux, one of the
eminent lawyers of France, was what we
call At.orney-general upon the fight Of
Louis Philippe.
In money power the Jews hold in their hands the |
destiny of kingdome and empires, whose govern
become bankrupt, and their sovereigns turn
at a Hebrews nod. Half a dozen Jews
can do more to preserve the peace Of Europe by
sitting behind their desk and pcrsistingly saying |
No! to the royal applicants for money, than all the
Peace Congresses and Conventions in Christen-
The Roihschilds, the Earrings and Sir John
Monlefere, are all Jews, and with their banking
establishments scattered over Europe and Asia,
weld a scep,re more powerful than monarchs
lold.
Coming to the literary profession, and %inquiring
nto the lineage of many Of the most distinguished
and men of science, we find the Jews pro-
here, a. well as 10 active life. The most
renowned in Astronomy have been the Jews, as
be Herschels in England and Arago in France. the
royal under Louis Philippe, and who
las filled The world with his fame. Those German
works which are deluging the world are for the
most part the production Of Chris,ianized Jews, as
hose Of Hengs,enberg. Tholnck. S~chleirmacher,
Sresenius. Nsaeder, Niebuhr, and Others, whose
canned t~reatises, Biblical criticisms, didactic theoIo-
" and general sacred literature, are found in the
Of every Theological Seminary, and in the
lands Of every theological student. Spinoza, the
ausous infdeI, was Jew, and so are Rouge and
,zenki, who took the lead Of a new religious re-
in Germany in our day.
Such have been and are the Jews. Mysterious
Insxp|icable enigma! A living. perpetu-
lily omnipresent miraclel A race so indomitable,
% imperishable, must have been raised up and
for some grand purpose.