Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-16
"JeKlsh smuggling

Mes;rs. Editors The article in the KSoxvILLE
WHO, Of August ID, headed as above calls forth a
reply, and you VIII please dc me the favor, I'M
biased and unprecedented publishers of paper, to
give these lines place in your next issue.
In the first place, it is gross misrepresentation
TO charge the smuggling business 70 the Jews. The
writer Of this was at Memphis al the time those
"three millions and half dollars worth Of goods
were shipped there, and knows, and is prepared to
prove, that the principal smuggling was carried on
by Southern ladies, who do not belong to the Jewish
creed; and in q great many instances smuggling
was carried on by these ladies under the cOnnivanoe
and by the assistance Of officers in the army and
others who are paid by the Government to prevent
such things.
Secondly, it is also great Misrepresentation that
these people were not the peopleto go into the war;
but took sides with the party strongest where they
| gerer
Thousands of Jews have enlisted in both armies,
and have shed their blood in defense of their flag
Hundreds, yea thousands of others who were not SO
situated As to enter the ranks hsve supported the
government in every way they could. know of
many jewish firms who have put from five TO ten
substitutes in the army, and paid them from their
private pockets.
Every intelligent man, whose mind is clear of
prejudice, knows that there is not more loyal peo-
pie on the face of the earth than the Jews; and if
mistake not, heard your senior editor make that
remark.
The Jew is quiet, sober, order-loying person.
He is not the man for sedition and revolution. L:
is true they love money but show me the man, be
be Jew or GENTLE, that does not. The Jew loves
money, but he loves to make it honestly and if he
earns it by industry he does not squander it in
drinking saloons at gaming tables houses of il
fame.
The Jews were the first among all the nations who
battled for liberty. They have passed through the
"fery ordeal of bigOtry and persecution to pre-
serve their creed and their nationality and ought
to be respected and respected by the intelligent
class. 1t is only the ignorant and those designing
demagogues who somehow or other make capital ou
of it, and keep up the old prejudice. Even our il
lustrious and much lamented President, Abraham
Lincoln did not consider It beneath his dignity K
remark to delegation of Jews, that he was proud
to acknowledge himself descendant of Jswisl
family, and that he was named Abraham in homo
Of his grand-Sire, who was jew.
In every country in Europe the old barriers o
prejudice are fast breaking away, and Jews are in
vited to settle in countries which have long beer
closed against them. Why, then, revive old pred
JUDGE in this country? Can it do any good?
Should it not be the duty of an intelligent pres
to break down prejudice to endeavor to unite tn
people, and to teach them to love thy neighbor? ?
doctrine preached from every pulpit.
Is it not the duty Of every East Tennesseean, VIII
has the interest Of his country at heart to invit
capital and snterprising business men to this coun
try? and certainly this is not the to encour
age and invite people to settle here,
The Editors of your paper are too Intelligent no
TO know these facts, and am astonished, as a lon
subscriber and reader, that such article could fin
place in your journal.
julius OcHs.