The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-25

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when he with knowledge andicourage
| and, at the risk his bWn 1iie,h has
saved my housey and Isagaini dwell al
my ease undereits roof,DI forget the
! b40w.3 Tkiss my saFiorls ahaud. and
am thankful for Ife.i I .wnnld say
you are, not very delicate individual,
but you are a worthy man. a Then we
recall that epoch Of the war sihGwhich
that order was issued, nolonc will find
this illustrationI iof burning house
an exaggerated one.a What burden,
what responsibility weighed on the
I Shoulders Of the Generala How many
such minor oFdersCas that, No. IL had
to be daily signed.N There, was no
time to weighGo words and Il polish
| phrases. lie tszqu gsm aAf tadt g
Grant signed the order. 90Whether
he, .wr9te it is very doubtful As a
generals thing suchsi papers are not
| prepared BY the commanding officer.
| No matter who wrotesitS 1T was afhaFd
I blow for the honest patriotic -4sfael-
iites, who saw nenlselyas 11ie-
serVedlY insufted. But is this accu-
safio against the Jews as a class
something new? It has been the case
for hundreds of years that the offence
of any one 1sraelite has been laid on
/ his nation. So it is here. Senators,
Representatives, Judges, Governors,
Generals, and hordes of lesser thieves,
stick their hands In Uncle Sam s
pockets and enrich themselves; but
as soon as an Abraham, an Isaac. or
Samuel comes SHY along and tries to
Fpick up a few crumbs, the cry is
ha
80 enstonarg 0Shtistiaas are in
the habit Of using the word jew in its
bad meaning, without really thinking
nothing more to do than to make re-
newed efforts to bring the Jew into
honor, so that the language and GUS
toms OF the people willsbe changed IN
our favor 80
As long as Grant was not a Re-
publieaR candidate, the question of
/" Grant and the Israe!ites might
arl~e&ABat now, after the nomina-
tion of Grant, and the action taken by
Dr. Mise and his Associates, We Be-
publicsns can do but one of two
things.H We must either, while the
natienis choosing a President, draw
back into one corner. and poutingly
say, "a nerieans, we will have moth
ing to do with YOU. Your candidate
is not the friend Of the Tsraelites. =,
We must squat down by the waters of
Babylon and howl. IF not, we must
vote for Seymour and Blair. Besides
this, we will have to digest the Dem
ocratic platform. Even though we
use | to hotd that the national debt
ought to be honorably paid, and that
all me- n Of all races should be equal.
we must change front in all these
things. since Grant has insulted US.
g'he question with us would not be
Grant and the Israelites," but N'the
republic aud the Israelites.
Let Us have all due respect for the
Republican party as such, and for its
followers. am a Republican, but /
respect the opposite party and those
who are true to its principles. So |
read the Isrdelite and Debord daily
with pleasure, and subscribe for it,
though it wars a. Democratic paper.
from tile time it started. 1t worked
for Buchanan, for Douglas, and for
Mcclellan. Lincoln received many a
hit, and the blacks were not tenderly
treated. 1t did not seem to me quite
the thing that a Jewish religious
paper should neddIe in. politics after
this fashion, but / thought: When
the heart is full the mouth speaketh.
4VAe man is Democrat and
,c&nnot help it. He must write
thus" So it is natural that
the Israelite should be in. the field
again during the present campaign.
Butit should display the old Demo-
cratic flag, the American national
one, and not a foreign zone, the ban
ner of Judeag The conflict before as
is an Anericah,a national, andnot an
lOriential one. America is a free.
country and every one has the9lright
to. find fault. The Isroetite has the
same right, but it should not End
fault where we are not to blame. That
is carrying things too far. Ii Grant
succeeds we VIII not let our pleasure
be destroyed by the thought that we
lIEraelitic Republicans have fought for
him. and if he fails he has simply
failed before a great national party.
But they should not be able TO say
that he fell by the hand of the Israel
! ties. We would not know where to
hide ourselves for shame.
LEHMAN ADLER.
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