The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-12
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70 the jew the week which has just ended has
been week OF social and religious festlvlly. Ii
has been to first week OF this new year. vi the ten
penitenta! days with which the Jewish year COM
meIccs, and during which the faithful are suppos-
ed 10 devote themselves II fasting, prayer ana
charity six have rolled past; and we do our jewish
fellow citizens no uuAindness when we express tue
hope that at the close OF the penitential season
they MAJ have the satisfaction Of believing that
their names arc inscribed with honor in the Book
Of Life. povout Jews in the midst Of us there are
doubtless many; and different as our creeds are,
We cannot refuse-to admit that there are Jews not
i few whom some IF Us Christians would do we'll to
lmitaGo.
Jewish creed or 10 enlarge on Jewish peculiarities
Our object is different, and. as we think, nobler
These year sOlemnitles have to Us been deeply
sug .estiye. Irrcsistiby they carry the mind back
Over long and checkered past, and to other and
far different scenes Nor are they less monitary
OF the possibilities and probabilities or the coming
tutura.
How strange how evcutful has been the history
Of the Jews Honored as no people have ever been
honored before or since, with the special favor OF
Heaven for the space OF two thousand years, per-
secutei for we'll nigh two thousand years more,
they have preserved their individuality and chung
to their peculiar tenents in maner which is with
out parallel in the entire history Of the race. In
almost all countries homeless wanderer, the jew
has vet preserved his identity and the jew OF to-
day, whether found i'll Asia, Europe or America,
differs in no essential particular from the Jew who
howled around the cross Of Christ OF from tho Jews
who went up to the annual feasts in the days of
David and Solomon. so much inherent vitality, SO
much tenacily Of purpose has never boon eylnceu
by any other people. They are the only living
people whose individuality remains unchanged,
and whose history Carries Us back to the yeais OF
the worlds infancy.
Volumes have been written OH the prosecutions
which the Jews have had to endure, and over
which they have triumphed. Since Titus sacked
Jerusalem, putting to death unsparingly man, wo-
man and child deluging its streets with blood, and
levelling its famous temple with the dust, reali-
Zhg To the full the terrific predictions OF SCRIPTURE
what suffering have they not endured? Driven
from their own country homeless and hated wher-
ever they have found themselves, subjected some
times TO Wholesale butchery, ilnpelled again and
again in different quarters 10 repeat the exodus
piundered Of their hard-earned gains, tortured by
machinery moro ipferns than the Inquisition ever
invented, the marvel is that as people they have
survived. The greater marvel Is that they not only
survive but prosper-prosper in numbers, in intel
lect and i'll wealth. The treasures of the world, IT.
fact-the gold the silver, and the precious stones
are in. .thea hands. True to the character which
first revealed itself prominently in Egypt, they
never enter country without making its gold Its
silver its jeweliy their own nor do they ever
lelve ii without carrying these with them. Ii Is
much to say, but is not more than the truth, that
many of the great landed estates and not few of
the crowns OF Europe virtually the property OF
the Jews They are the great kings, of gold, the
1t is not to be denied, however, that though the
| Jew has remained the same down through all the
ages, the circumstances surrounding the Jew nave
Il sterially altered He is no longer the object OF
universal hatred and disgust: Shakspeares shy.
lock belongs to dead and buried past, not because
| the feelings with which Shylock was regarded
have ceased to- be- 1t is these altered circumstan-
ces which have given the Jew his opportunity, and
| which may possibly In tho long run even change
his charactef Hitherto the Jew has been an alien
all the countries which he has settled
and for the obvious reason that as an alien ho mas
been treated. Denied the rights or citizenship, he
has never felt citizens obligation. Matters have
| begun 10 change. In several OF the European
States the Jewish disabilities have been complete
ly removed. In the lists Of university professors
or court physicians and even Of cabinet ministers
jewish names are to be found and already even
in England, the despised people are extensive
holders of real estate, In England even m Eng en-
| land a Disrae rules the Cabinet, and Rothchild
controls the finances, How great the change
since the days of the Bristol Jew. whose teeth
we're plucked out one By one, to compel him to re-
veal his treasure
| Improved. however, as Is the Jews position III
almost all countries nowhere does he find himself
| so much at home as III the United States OF Amer
| ica Dsa bties here he has none. de takes his
place among lis terms OF perfect equality. Id"
iul privileges OF citizenship are accorded HIM. Ii
born within the limits OF the republic, the highest
offices OF the state are open to his ambition Eri-
dence Is not wanting to show that the jews appie-
tiate cur republican institutions. lu increasing
numbers they annually dock :" our shores. In oil
our large cities they form importast and useful
| clement In some of our Western States they
figure as the largest holders OF real estate. Jew
| President is not an improbabty i'll the early fu-
| ture. II remains 70 be seen whether with the
superior advantages we offer hin, and the grander
| appliances We can bring 70 bear upon him. We
! shall not be able TO manufacture out OF the old
material grandel animal than has Yet borne the
Jewish name.