Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-11

A well-known magistrate Of Richmond,
Va, ceriifes to the following, which IS
highly complimentary to the Hebrew race
4" ! was Commonwealth Attorney of the
city Of Richmond for twcnty-one wears
and, in that long interval, prosecuted only
three Jews, and two of them were most
honorably acquitted, there being not a par
ticle Of evidence 10 sustain the charge.
During my fourteen years of service as a
magistrate only one Jew was before me for
trial. and he was acquitted. In all that
long interval | do not remember ever
having received an application for public
charity from any individual Of either sex
or any age belonging TO that faith. And,
so far as ] am aware, no Jewish child has
ever received even the benefits Of our free
schools, for which their parents, without q
murmur, pay their taxes"
The Norfolk Journal in speaking Of the
Hebrew race, says:
There is, perhaps, no more striking eth
biological phenomenon showing the tenacity
Of blood, and Of race, than is exhibited in
the history Of that people that traces its
origin for forty centuries through the reyo-
buttons of empires back TO that period when
Abraham and Lot fed their hoclss together
in the great plain of the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah. At this very dav. in what.
ever cline this peculiar people NAV be
found, whether amid the SHOWS Of Canada
OF the burning sands Of Arabia; or if we
trace them 10 the dim twilight Of the early
ages, or view them in the broad civilization
OF the nineteenth century, the blood Of the
Hebrew race preserves its purity, and like
the pillar Of fire in the wilderness. is a
standing miracle through all climes and
times.
They are, in truth, the same people to-
day, marked by the same peculiarities, the
same physical conformation, the same
Abrahamic features, and the same reli-
glous faith that their ancestors possessed |
when Moses led them through the waters |
OF the Red sea, and Pharaoh and his hosts /
were engulphed beneath the returning |
food.
No man can account for the strange /
preservation Of this race, except upon the
hypothesis of the interposition of Divine
Providence. Within the period Of their
historic existence empires have arisin like
short-lived mists arise from the sea, and
have gone down in the long night Of ages
to rise no more, and even whole races have
sprung up and have disappeared, having
been swept from the face of the earth.
They are, indeed the chosen of God. and
unless all Inspirations is lie, they are pre-
served for a more glorious exhibition of
Divine power than the Gentle world ever
saw. Wherever we trace them, whether on
the fertile banks Of the Nile, the absolute
slaves Of 3 cruel task-master, or basking in
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the temple Of Solomon, the same indomit-
able, unialtering faith in that God who had
preserved them, is one Of the most sublime |
earth.
Upon the ruins Of that sacrifcial altar,
which in faith Abraham erected nearly
our thousand years ago, a mighty city
iprang into existence, riyalling the spIen-
doris Of Thebes and Tadmor. In the re-
Of empires Jerusalem persisted, |
and the survivors Of the descendants Of
Israel were driven from the homes oftheir
athers, and scattered over this broad earth.
STILL their faith is as strong to-day in the
sod OF Jacob as was that of their fathers
when Joseph welcomed his brethren in ]
light Of the Pyramids of the Pharaohs.
Amid the mutations Of time and the vicis-
itudes OF life, they still worship at the :
anne altar, and kneel with reverential awe
'eior that God, who on Horebs rugged
nount disclosed 10 Moses his eternal self
Sistence in the awful words, / AM THAT
AM. ,
Expelled at various periods from almost
very cline, prescribed and prosecuted by
he whole GENTLE world, they still cling
nth unwayering faith to that law which s
tod delivered 90 their fathers amid the a
hunders Of Sinai, and believe with tena- \
ity which time cannot destroy, that He 1
ali one day restore them 10 that Inherit
nee now desecrsted BY the infdel Turk.
short, they have been oppressed, impri-
lned, banished, robbed. outraged and =
lurdered for centuries past and yet in 2,
be meekness and humility OF a spirit that L
nds no parallel on earth, they have bowed ! Y
lbmissively, under their numberless atlic- ~
0ns, 10 the firm belief that Heaven will {
Il avenge their wrongs a
A religion which gives such signal ex-
nples Of the splendors Of moral worth and
tellectual grandeur displayed on every | I
lge Of the inspiredrecord, ought 10 teach us m
what grand materials the Hebrews ma J,
re is composed, and we NAV boldly chal-
nge the history Of Greece, Rome. France.
ngland or any other nation Of ancient or
Odern times TO show Us people exhibit
< 20 many virtues and adorned with such | y
risd talents a. we can find everywhere il
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the Hebrew race. 'e
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