Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-08
The Recall of Israel.

iSOt Lui opCdu Se1tiCuou1 uOG VI CCW-
ish origin has been tried on a linn
tied scale in Judea and Syria, two
or three times without much success,
and very recently an attempt on the
part of a New England colony to es-
tablish itself in the same regions, near
ly came to an end, owing to divers
defects Of temper and organization
That such would be the fate of
a serious enterprise of the same
kind on the part of the "chosen peo
ple," there is not the least reason to
exceedingly numerous in Syria, and
their returning outposts push farther
and farther every year, toward the
Holy City, where the remnants Of their
once teeming numbers still crouch un-
der the Ottaman scimetar. In Damas-
Gus alone there are $4,000 Israelites,
a thrifty, energetic, and intelligent
race. The present aspect of the East
ern Question indicates that tremend-
Gus crisis impends in the fate Of the
Turkish Empire, and that willingly or
unwillingly, the Western nations Of
Europe and the advancing Russians
are about to accelerate the possibility
of a wholesale return of the Jews to
Palestine, where the establishment of
civil polity in cOnsonance with the
spirit of the age and religious feelings
of mankind, would render the restor-
alton of a people that has toiled in all
lands, and acquired all arts, to the
proprietorship of the soil compare.
lively easy thing.
The financial management, and con.
sequently, the mutual intercourses
the diplomacy, the external commerce
and internal trade of many powerful
modern nations, are profoundly infu-
enced by Jewish wealth and intellect
as every one knows who is at all ia
miliar with the names and history Of
the great bankers and statesmen of
the day. They often have it in their
control to make or to unmake political
combinations, and the actual numbers
of their recognized brethren standing
together in all lands, does not fall be.
low 100000 souls. OF the Lost
Tribes, their numerical strength, and
their dormant might, to-day, who may
correctly speak Shall they reappeal
in few years from the inner deptt
Of Asia, by scores of millions after
modern arts and arms shall have en-
4bled them to hrnqlr the bonds of
Tartar despOtlsm, and pour Westward
over the Euphrates to the pleasant
land of their Inheritance
a voice was raised in appeal to the
Jews scattered throughout the worlC
years ago, and first in German, anC
afterwards in all languages, it uttered
sentences like these:
1--WE have a country, the inheritance
of our fathers, finer, more fruitful, bet
ter situated for commerce than mort
celebrated portions of the Globe
Environed by the deep delIed Taurus
the lovely banks Of the Euphrates, th
lofty steppes of Arabia and Of rock.
Sinai, our country extends along th
shores of the Mediterranean, crowne'
by towering cedarS of Lebanon, th
source of a hundred rivulets an
brooks which spread fruitfulness owe
shady dales and confer wealth on tn
contented inhabitants. A gloriou
land, situated at the furtherest eXtren
ity of the sea which connects thre
quarters of the Globe, and over whic
the Pheenicians, our brethren, sen
their numerous fleets to the shores o
Lithuania-near to both the Red Sc
and the Persian Gulf-the perpetuf
courses of the traffic Of the world o
the way from Persia and India to th
Black and Caspian Seas; the centra
country of the commerce between th
East and the West"
Farther on, leading to the oonfusio
that has become chronic in the Coul
ellis of Mohammedan nations, the san
, voice exclaims:
"The power Of our enemies is don
the angel of discord has long sinc
mown down their mighty hosts, an
yet ye do not bestir yourselves,peopl
of Jehovah! What hinders ? Not
ing but your own supineness."
The reproach of the last line quo
ted above seems now no longer fit
! applicable. In many countries
strong undercurrent, not merely
thought, feeling, yearning has set
towards the banks Of Jordan, but tlel
O is positive stir Of enterprise al
capital in that direction.
The excavations going on und'
the auspices of the French Cover
ment at Jerusalem, and the remark
bic confirmation their disclosures vie
at every step of all the Biblical de
criptions of Solomon's Temple, Il
= wall, tombs, Notifications, etc, of t
. ancient city, are quickening the inte
est everywhere felt in the topics
. our remarks. Political events too a
' conspiring to render the signifcan
OF the subject more profound in o
= day. A Congress of Nations is su
gested. The Italian imbroglio is b
?. one of the questions that would ne
# essarily arise for discussion in so a
gust conclave. In fact, 1t was t
hinging of the whole affair upon th
,r delicate issue which has thus far c
o. layed the assembling OF the desir
d. Congress. But the definite seltleme
70 of Judean occupancy, the diploma
u rescue of the Holy Land from t
: grasp of the Moslem, and its absolr