The Lincoln County herald., 1870-06-09
A Bartholomew Massacre in E0umania

"A Wcch dSO, 81 We arc iuIOTueu ny tuO
cable, tbousaods Of Jews, men, women
aud children, were driven ou, of their
homes and assussinated by the so called
christian population of Noumauia, and
there is little hope that this report may
prove TO have been exaggerated. Two
yeats ago similar nassacres took place In
the sam. localities of Roumania, and one
can scarcely open German newspaper,
which does not report jew killing,
(Juden Uetse, rs they call iO in some
Of these semi civilized states in the east
Of Europe, where christianity is only
used by the rulers to nlaiutain their own
despotism, and ignorance and prejudice
rs auxiliaries, These horrors are the
more atrocious, as they are not in any
manner the result of passions, stir. led up
by the Jews ia these countries as by pc
culiarly exciting incidents but they are
com mitted, MS the Roumanian government
was forced to admit two years ago, with
lhe intention Of getting ho.d Of the
property Of The Jews, and at no risk Of
punishment, because the whole commu.
nifty participated in the assassination, aud
communities cannot be reached by Grim
inal law. Only the very lowest classes
are f.natcised by the ringlCadcrs; but
the scheme has been repeated so often,
aud it has boon so often proved that rob
berry alone is inc principal aim of these
raids against the Jews, that even the
4 lowest classes can no longer avai; them
selves Of the doubtful excuse which fa-
paticism might otherwise furnish. The
i - in IN M
slaughter By any definite act than they
did two hundred years ago, lien hun
dreds of them were put in wine presses in
the cities of Germany and pressed to
death, or tortured end killed in other
ways, nearly everywhere on the old con-
tlnent. They were supply helpless aud
without much protection by the laws, and
inas much as men are inore Ur less like
beasts of prey, if they are not peryon.ed
by the strong hand of the law. they
killed the Jews, took hold of their prop
erty, and afterwards excused themselves
as having been forced to do So for the
maintenance Of religion, first principles
Of which they had to deny, in order to
raise hand asaingt any Of their tel,
lo@ beings. Not longer ago than the
, 10Th Of April, Haluszin, a town in the
, province of Warsaw, was the scene of a
most abomiuable persecution Of the
Jews. And what was the ori gin Of it
| The servant tf Russian officer had
stolen some frewood from lows yard
The jew demonstrated in tie most civil
mauncr against that practice, when the
officer declared himself offended by tbt
, remona,rance, fastened the jew III Bis
room aud i'll treated him most horribly
, The next morning he ordered out hi:
! whole command against the Jews, anI
then q terrible Jewbaiting commenced
E throughout the whole city. Even the
5 police aud the civil officers assisted
r the military in their bloodthirsty per
c secuions, which ceased o"ly when moth
ing was lef. in The hands of the Jew.
G worth stealing.
1 The fact is that in eastern Europe
B. christianity is still Interpreted in thu
b same barbarous manner as it was in th'
e ives, during the middle ages. Traveller:
r who 20 by the overland route to Asi;
4 Minor, and thence to llindoostan, ant
n into the interior of Persia, China an,
Japan, always feel relieved when the,
leave oriental christianity behind them
There is now Prussian prince at th'
head of these Roumanians they hav'
been praised as bulwark of Europea
=. civilization against the inroads Of caste.
i barbarity-and new they prove to b
5 infinitely more barbarous than all tn
barbarians and hcalhens combined on tn
e eastern border Of Europe. For all this
e Roumauiaus will have to suffer precisel
Il as the Spania.ds and the French, VIII
d who also committed the foil of persecut
h ing and driving out the Jews and Hu
j guenots. They also drove away wealt
q aud industry, and remained at home wit
# lazness aud poverty, until the retribt
/ ton came in the form Of revolutions, tn
!, guilo'ine, con6scation, and bankruptc.
n -Republcau.
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