Thibodaux minerva., 1855-09-01
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 numerous as they
were when they left the land of Egypt, the re-
turns made to Bonaparte giving about three
millions. Expatrated, they become citizens OF
the world; and wherever tolerated they COM
meDce traffic and become thrifty Every where
they are at home. They may be banished but
cannot be expelled; be trodden down, yet can.
not be crushed. Only in the United States
France, Holland, and Prussia are they fully
citizens; but in spite of British statutes, the
Russian ukase and Turkish curse, they prosper
still. The great nations of antiquity, the Egyp-
tians 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 tortures have only
served to increase their numbers and reinforce
their obstinacy.
But the Jew exists, not only as monument
and a miracle; Jewish mind has exerted a
powerful influence 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 escape the odum of being
an Israelite, were all Marshals of France under
the eye of the greatest warrior of his age. In
politics the Jews have Metternich in Austria,
D1sraeli in England, a convert to the Christian
faith, while the Autocrat of Russia has had a
Jew for his confidential counsellor, and Spain a
Prime Minister of the same race, and Russia
her Minister of Finance. In the United States,
Jews begin to figure in our national councils !;
Mr.. Yulee, late member eff the House, and
Mr.. Benjamin, Senator from Louisiana, being
Of the Hebrew stock. Mr.. Cremieux, one of
f1p mr. 10 Of hal
We should call Attorney General upon the flight
of Louis Philippe.
In money power the Jews hold in their hands
the destiny Of kingdoms and empires, whose
governments become bankrupt, and their
sovereigns turn beggars at a Hebrews nod.
Half dozen Jews can do more to preserve the
peace of Europe by sitting behind their desk
and persistingly saying No! to the royal appli-
cants for money, than all the Peace Congresses
and Conventions in Christendom. The Roths-
childs the Barings and Sir John Montefere,
are all Jews, and with their banking establish
ments scattered over Europe and Asia, WELD
sceptre more powerful than monarchs hold
Coming to the literary profession, and inquir-
ing into the lineage of many Of the most dis
tinguished scholars and men of science, we find
the Jews prominent here, as well as in active
life. The most renowned in Astronomy have
oeeu 'he Jews, as tne nersCneis III England anu
Arago in France, the Astronomer royal under
Louis Philippe, and who has filled the world
with his fame. Those German works which are
1eluging the world are for the most part the
production of Christianized Jews as those of
Tholuck, SchIeirmacher, Grese-
MUS, Neaeder, Niebuhr, and others, whose
earned treatises, Biblical criticisms, didactic
theology and general sacred literature, are
ound in the library of every Theological Semi
,ary, and in the hands of every theological
student. Spinoza, the famous infdel, was a
lew, and so are Ronge and Czersk. who took
he lead of a new religious reformation in Ger
many in our day.
Such have been and are the Jews. Myste-
ious nation! Inexplicable enigma! A living,
omnipresent miracle! A race so
so imperishable, must have been
aised up and preserved for some grand purpose.