The Portland daily press., 1867-08-19
The Jazz. Colony-An Appeal for Help.

The Jaffa COlony-An Appeal for Help.
The deluded followers of j. G. Adams, who
went out to Jaffa a year ago to establish the
Church of the Messiah" have made an "ap-
peal to the humanity and benevolence" OF their
friends on this side of the Atlantic, which can
not fail to awaken the profoundest sympathy
All their brilliant authorizations have been Bit
terly disappointed They were promised three
rich crops go to 100 fold) in one year from the
same piece of land but they did not get back
the seed which they put into the ground
Their improved agricultural implements are
found to be of no value in that country. They
are sick of fever and ague; their clothing is
worn out; they are without employment or the
means OF subsistence and their children are
growing up without schools or instruction of
any kihd. These misfortunes they attribute
wholly to the miscreant whose satanic inn
pulses led him to sacrifice them to his Iongings
Tor power. He deceived them in the first in
stance, and afterwards upon their arrival in
Palestine, prevented the success of their agri-
cultural operations by rejecting the advice of
friendly natives as to the best means of culti-
waiting the soil. The closing portion of this
appeal is as follows: a
Mr.. Adams denies all assistance to those who
will not submit longer to his tyrannical sover-
cign sway and bear a slOw-cOurse starvation;
and as our doctor died some time ago, we are
also left destitute of medical aid or advice in
our continual sickness. Out of 156 souls that
sailed with us from America. "a have returned,
IL have died; the remaining S6-16( Mr.. Adams
his family and IS others) excepted-are All
longing to return TO America But 90 of these
are SO entirely dependent on Mr. Adams at
present for the means of sustenance that thew
lfal 70 aGt openly and according to their de-
sign this appeal; but we add their names and
numbers OF their families, as we know that they
VIII De IN the same need as ourselves in a
Few weeks hence. Words cannot express the
pltter sorrow and humiliation that weigh us
Gown, hlgntened by the Notifying conscious
ness OF being duped by the Vaccinations of an
inhuman deceiver We have blndly followed
| his advice, believed his word, obeyed his coun-
| sci, and remained his most ardent supporters
| IN every thing, even against the true and inno-
| cent, as we now know to our deep regret In
this our desperate situation our only hope and
| desire is to go back to the United States where.
IL we are pennIless, We can at least begin life
| again, and by honest work earn bread for our
serves ana chiidren, But to accomplish this
we must appl, for the necessary means to all
| benevolent men, but in particular to our conn
tcymen, whose kind hearts we trust NAV be
moved to pity by our lamentable situation
Beside the means for the voyage home-say for
| IN'ShoJ III poiSoHs, being calculated (ClIl-
dren under age) at sixty passengers--we must
nave some funds to keep us here durino the
Winter, viz, to defray the expenses Of These
seventy four persons (including four new born
inlants) during nine months. This Is unayoid-
able, because we cannot leave with our fami-
lies before the beginning of next April: for il
we arrive in .Maine-our native part of the
United States-in mid Winter, the Sudden and
tremendous change of climate, without a home
or money, and without immediate work. would
be too much for our shattered health and en-.
feebled constitutions. A list of the Gifts and
names OF the contributors will be published
and accounts rendered by the committee. chos.
en- by the undersigned ~
Here follow the names Of the signers Of the
appeal, with those who are known to be disaf
feeted, but are afraid to declare their senti
ments while still subject to Adams. Beau
boucher U. S. Consul att Jerusalem. ami
Loewenthal. Vice Consul at Jaiffa, certify tn,
correctness of the colonists statements. The
former, in his certificate, declares that these
unfortunate people are shonest, LAT orious ar.
tlzans, worthy of the deepest sympathy. p
Though not favored by fortune himself he viii
iingly subscribes 800 toward the fund for thei,
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