San Andreas independent., 1856-11-15
Gge ynospenoent.
Saturday,.......NOvember 15. 1856.


tains much valuable information of a his
torical character. From the columns OF
the Israelite we extract the following:
"Mr. E. Miro, who was elected to the
Legislature, is brother, we learn, of the dis
tinguished Jewish Theologian. We feel
assured from the great fund of information
which he commands, and the eloquence
and ability of the gentleman, that his ca
reer in our Legislative Halls will be bright
and honorable. At all events he will vim
dicate the honor of the Israelites, if again
wantonly attacked Mr.. Miro was nomi-
mated and elected by the Republican, or
Fremont party.
1t is a matter of daily observation that
the Jews are more successful in money
getting than any other people AS rich
as Jew, is proverb. How to account
for this-to what cause to ascribe it-has
no doubt been puzzle with many. If the
following statement be correct, there is no
difficulty in accounting for it:
"'The most polite people in the world
are not the French, the English, the Amer
ican, the italian nor the German, but the
Jewish For the Jews are maltreated and
reviled, and despoiled of their civil privil-
eyes and their social rights yet are they
everywhere polite, affable, insinuating and
condescending. They are remarkable for
their industry and perseverance; indulge
In few or no recriminations are faithful
to old associations; more respectful of the
prejudices of others than these are of
theirs; not more worldl minded andmone
loving than people generally are; and eve
rything considered, they surpass all ma
tions in courtesy, afability and forbearance.
Few persons excel in address bright and
polished Jew. There is no rusticity among
that people,
"The people who now claim our atten-
ton, have been known by several names;
as, Hebrews Israelites,' and Jews
these having been given to them in sue
cessive periods of their history. The last
is the name by which they have been gen
orally called for many ages past, and is de-
rived from Judah, who was the head of
the principal.
"This nation, without reference to its
religious belief, is among the most remark
able In the annals of mankind 1t sprang
from one definite stock, at an early period
of the world and has ever since retail
infinite variety of fortune. The j
have ever been known as apeculiar
pie, whether united in national severe
ty under the varying forms of gov
ment, or expelled from their native
and dispersed amongst other nation
They constitute, perhaps, the only un
gled race which can boast a. very re
antiquity; and, though hated, scorne
oppressed, in most countries, they ST
numerous and often thriving people
In all the changes OF manners and opin-
ions around them, they preserve their time
hallowed institutions, their national spirit,
and their deathless hope of restoration to
grandeur and happiness in the home of
their fathers.
If we speak Of pedigrees, the Talbots,
Percys and Howards, are like mushrooms
of yesterday. Show me a "Jew," and
you show me man whose genealogical
tree springs from Abarham's bosom, whose
family is older than the decalogue and who
bears incontrovertble evidence in every
line of his Oriental countenance of the
authenticity of his descent through hund-
reds of successive generations; you see
him living argument of the truth of Di-
vine revelation in him you behold the
literal fulillment of the prophecies with
him you ascend the stream of time, not
voyaging by the help of the dim, uncer-
tain and fallacious light of tradition, but
guided by an emanation Of the same light
which to his nation was ga cloud by day
and pillar of fire by night" in him you
see the representative of the once favored
people of God, to whom, as to the chosen
of mankind, he revealed himself their le-
gislator, protector, and king; who brought
them out of the land of Egypt-out of
the house of bondage The religious his
tory of this people is also peculiar and ex-
traordinary. 1t informs us in regard to
opinions and ceremonies, events and trans
actions, of a kind widely different from
any others, and instructs mankind in
mode unknown to other narratives, be-
cause it brings directly into view the su-
pernatural operations of the Creator
Throughout the whole history, the Divine
design seems to be kept in view, in setting
apart one family from the rest of the ma
tions- The national faith, amid all its ex-
posures and temporary suspensions, is iden-
titled with the history of the nation. To
a Jew, State and Church are ever the
same; his government is his religion, and
his religion his governmental Goodrich's
History Of all Nations.
FIRST RIz Some wags took a drunken
fellow, placed him in coffin, with the lid
left so he could raise it, placed him in a