Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-30

10 start for the Holy Land at a moments mo-
tice, as they did at their escape from Egypt,
when they were so successful in borrowing
the rsiment, jewelry and other portable
things of the Egyptians. Of course il would
be inconsistent TO elect them rulers among
psb and thus sattach them to our country
when we are praying God every day in our
Business sPrayer-meethg TO start them
along for their own land. But perhaps we
aro no better Interpreters of prophesy in re-
gard TO the restoration the Jews, than they
were in regard 70 tAe Messiah, and while we
are praying that they may be restored,
the restoration may have already taken place
in our midst in their prosperity, wealth and
political power.
But II was not our purpose TO discuss
prophesy in this article, as that Is among the
works which we reserve for our Sunday
paper, but to notice the expression Of Mr..
Isador Bush's political opinions, and to see
how they compare with the faith of his
fathers. He says the Jews have no selfish ends
to serve in politics, but unite their interests
with those of the State; but that the Jews
are, with few exceptions, with the Repub-
liean party; "and naturally SO; first, from the
impressions received in early youth by the
teachings of the Bible--( Exodus xxi, Deuter-
onomy xv., Leviticus xxv.) And ye shall
proclaim liberty throughout all The land unto
all the Inhabitants thereof; : secondly, from his
own historical recollections. His daily prayers
remind him that his fore fathers were slaves
in the land Of Egypt, freed and brought forth
by the Lord" .lH
Mr. lsidor V. Bush would abolitionize the
Bible on very untenable grounds. The very
passage which be quotes, proclaimed liberty
only to the Jews, not to their slaves from
the surrounding nations. It never pro-
claimed liberty to the Gideonites, who were
made hewers of wood and drawers of water
forever for slight pious fraud, to save their
nation from destruction. Mr., Bush strangely
forgets the divers laws of nleuns and t,nn in
this matter. The Hebrews did not like to be
slaves, but they always held slaves when
they could. Joseph, singularly virtuous
and highly favored man, introduced slavery
into Egypt by means of his prophetic knowl-
edge of the famine. He counselled the King
to save the corn, and then in the famine year
he sold it out to the people, first for their
money, then for their cattle, and when every
thing else was gone into the Kings treasury,
Joseph made them give their lands, and
from that time they worked them for the
Kings benefit. He certainly set a good pre-
cedent for the enslaynR of his own people. 1
That quotation: proclaim liberty through
out the land, did good service in our Revo-
luton; but il did not proclaim liberty to the
negro. The Republicans recognize the diff
ference between nieum and ttlIm in this mat
ter. They would not be willing to be slaves
themselves, because it was an existing insti-
tuition, established by local law, although
they hold that this makes African slavery
sacred from their interference. This is the
principle which the Bible establishes 1t is
singular that Mr.. Isidor v. Bush should
be 80 ignorant of the sacred books
of his own people. Pharaoh and
his host was submerged for enslaving the
Hebrews; but, the Hebrews were divinely
ordered to enslave other nations. The year
Of jubilee proclaimed liberty to all the land,
and TO all the inhabitants thereof, but to none
but the Hebrews, and even they might be
enslsved forever by the proper ceremony of
boring hole through their. ears. The prin-
cipie Of slavery, both biblical and modern,
is governed entirely by the circumstance
whether it is our bull that gores or our OK
that is.gored. ,.,, IS.