The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-30
From the Rock Island Argus Jan'y 7, 1863
Prescription Of tho Israelites.

| The action Of Gen. Grant in relation to
the Jews, if reported to US from Turkey,
! Russia, Austria or Morocco, would excite
the sympathies of every church in America.
Such acts of prescription Of whole classes
Of christians by foreign despotisms have
heretofore called forth the earnest remOn.
STRANGE Of our government, under former
administrations, and have awakened the in
dignation Of frcemen all over our land, and
the prayers of the christian churches have
been offered up, throughout the Union, for
the prescribed sects, aud efforts have been
made to Rmellorate their condition.
Following the unjust attack upon a whole
class Of people INSTEAD of upon the individ.
uaIs who violated the rules of the depart.
ment) was another order forbidding, under
penalty Of confscaton any farmer or planter
to receive more than rs cents q pound for
his cotton. This explained the whole affair.
The Jews were paying the planters 40 cents
pound for their cotton, and this interfered
with the favorite army spectators, who
wanted it for Is cents. Therefore Grant
issues proclamation ordering all Jews to
leave within a hours, and issues instructions
to bis underllngs to require Of each Jew en-
phNu Nttff ~ fFiNbNs "huO VI tutuA re-
fused to take the Qath--to their credit be it
said.
Well, the Jews met at Louisville, and at
Cairo, held public meeting and denounced
the tyranny Of Grant, and appointed com
mittee to proceed to Washington and ask
that the Infamous order be revoked, and
Gen. Hdlieck has issued an order recoking
Grant proclamation What does our
abolition Union newspaper think about it
now2 Was Grants action based upon
Sufficient reasOns?' Does the Union now
think sit WAS not given without cause Pr
The Union says
we notice the rebel newspapers in the north
oppose tho order, and that is the best evidence
that could be given of its necessity to prevent
the defTauding Of the government and the
vigorous prosecution of the war. !"
What rebel newspapers are printed in
the north2 Were the Jews "as a class,
"defrauding the government r We're they
opposing 'the vigorous prosecution of the
WARP Individuals may have done all this
but las class the Jews are as loyal and
as patriotic as any other "class' in the land.
But it was not the business of the Jews
alone to resist this outrageous invasion of
their rlghts-this lntamy attempted to be
heaped upon them, If the Jews, "as
class" may be prescribed, to-day, why not
the baptsts, or the methodists, or the pres.
byterians, or the episcopalians, or the catho-
lies, tomorrow If the Jews can be made
the cringing slaves of abolition tyranny, to-
day, where is the guaranty that the Ger
mans, or the lrishmen, or the Frenchmen, |
Or the Swedes, or other nationaities will not |
be attacked tomorrow The attack was |
not alone upon the Jews. II was upon
liberty And if not successfully resisted at |
once, some other class would be attacked |
next! Liberty is represented as giant wo.
man, and we, the people, are her limbs,
bones, muscles, sinews, veins, heart, and |
soul we allow the government to be her
head and brains. If she ID wounded in any
Of her members the whole body suffers, and
must be cared for and cured at once, or
more serious consequences will follow, It
was then, the duty of every man who loves
liberty Justice, and the constitutional rights of
III, to protest against and resist this attack
lpon the rights Of our citizens, no matter
whether they be jew or Gentle. The
people did resist, and they conquered. Gen.
Grant has been rebuked, as he deserved to
be,