The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-12
The Jesv An che Old World and the New.
lFron the Ne,o York H,rob,l ,

To the Jew the week which has Just ended ha,
peen u week OF socia! and religious ~festivity. 1
ponitential days with which the Jewish year com
mences, and during which the faithful are suppos
cd to devote themselves to fasting, prayer ant
fellow citizens no unkindness when we express Ia,
nope that, at the close Of the penitential season
they may have the satisfaction of believing tina
tnelr names arc inscribed with honor in the Bool
OF Life. Devout Jews in the midst OF us there arr
d~oubtless many; and different as our creeds are
we cannot refuse to admit that there are Jews mo-
a lew whom some CT us Christians would do we'll t.
imitataa t "
It is not, however, our intention to discuss the
Jewish creed, or to enlarge on Jewish peculiarities
Our object ia different. and, as we think, nobler
These new year solemnities have to us been deeply
suggestive. Irresistibly they carry the mind back
overs long and checkored past, and to other. and
far different scenes. Nor are they less MONETARY
OF tho possibilities and probabilities of the coming
future. ~ .
How strange, how ~evontful has been the history
Of che Jewsl Honorod as no people have ever been
honored, before or since, with the special favor OF
secuted for well nigh two thousand years more,
they have preserved their individuality and chung
to their peculiar tenents in q maner which is with
out parallel in tho entire history OF the race. In
almostall countries q homeless wanderer, the Jew
has yet,,preserved his dentity and the Jew Of to-
differss in no essential particular A from the De n 9ew Sho
howleda around the cross Of Christ, or from the jews
who went up, to the annual feasts in the days of
David and solomon. So much inherent vitality, 40
much tcnacity Of purpose has never been eyinced
by any other people. They are the only LIVING
people whose individuality remains unchanged,
tho worlds infancy. 1890
Volumes have been written on the prosecutions
w which me the Jews have nay, had to endure, and over
man 3aaD1 and child, ]doi,uging It's streets With blood 90 and and
ling to the full the terrific ri opred E,th ase Of a serip asaa-
what suffering have they not endured? Driven
from their own country, homeless and hated wher-
aver nav haUa fn1In1 fhnrn-ol-HH = -
times to wholesale b~utohery, impelled again and
again IN different Quarters to repeat the exodus,
, anh a OF their hard-esrned gains, tortured BY
invented, the marvel is that as a people thoy have
survived s',rv;vo IL The greater marvel is Ii tthey not only
lest and in wealth. The treasures u au of the world aom La'e II
fact-the gold, the silver, and the precious stones
ere in their hands; True to the character which
never enter a country without making its gold, its
silver. its jewelry their own nor do they ever
leave It without carrying these with them. It is
many OF the great landed estates and not q few of
the crowns ofEurope are virtually the property Of
the an,; HsT 7: They are the great kings 81 gold, the
It 10 not to be denied, however, that though the
Jew has remained the same down through all the
a atcrially altered. He is no longer the object Of
unprecedented and. disgust. 3ahakspeare's Shy.
l9 belo !gg to 2 dead andburied past, not because
have ceased to be. 1t is these altered circum stan.
ces. which have given the Jew his opportunity. and
which may possibly in the long run even change
his character. Hitherto the Jew has been an alien
IN almost all the countries in which he has settled
and for the obvious reason that as an alien he has
been treated, Denied the rights Of citizenship. he
has never felt a citizens obligation. Matters have
begun to change. In several Of the Europaan
States the Jewish disabilities have been compIete.
~ removed. In the lists Of university professors.
or court physicians, and even of cabinet ministers
Jewish nance are to be found; and already. even
In England, the orce despised people are extensive
holders OF roai e~state.t In England, even in Eng
land, q Disraeli rules the Cabinet, and a Rothohlid
controls the finances. How great the change
since the days of the Bristol Jew, whose teefh
v were b piu slss Ley, Snt one by one, to compel him to re-
Improved. hoEevalss Dis is theg JEWS position in
almost all countries, nowhere does he find himself
40 much at homo as in the United Statesso of Amer
lea. Disspilities here he Shss none. He takes his
placsenorg ms On teFma of perfect equality. The
fnu pr1vilPBss pf citizenHhip are Aocorded linn. IF
arhaTithihHh eaiaits Of the repi1hliB,Stila highest
soh1ces ot the State arc opensto his annbition. Evil
tClateM otirs5rppnbliGa instiJGff6na ia increasAsfhng
number they annually flock to our shores. In ali
our large cities they form an importa Mt and useful
element. In some of our Western, States they
figure as the largest holders of real estate. A Jew
President is not an improbability in the early fu-
ture. II remains to be seen whether Will the
superior advantages we otter him, and the grander
appliances we can bring to bear upon him. we
shall not be able to manufacture out Of the old
material q grander animal than has vet borne the
jewish name.