The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-07

APPEAL OF THE jews IN RouMANIA.-
The Memphis Appeal publishes the fol-
lowing from the German of the call the
suffering Israelites in Roumania make
up6n their more fortunate brethren in
the United States:
| IsMA11. RoUMANIA,
In the Spring, 1872.
| BELOVED BRETHREN: With fearful eyes
and our hearts weighed down deeply
with sorrow, we desire to give you a
brief description OF the horrible misfor-
tune which lately has broke in upon our
innocent congregation.
Not for the purpose of moving your
hearts, not to call forth your commisera-
ton, nor yet to encourage your charity,
for We are convinced that these are un-
necessary; that from the first intelligence
of our misfortune you have felt our
wrongs, even before knowing their en-
tire extent; that you have shared our
misery without having any idea Of its
magnitude; and that you have mourned
and wept over our hard trials and vista
tions with ourselves.
No. 1t is only to exhibit to you our
misery in its entire terrible form, to in
form you to the fullest extent of the
awful visitation. aud to convince you
that small amount Of assistance is in
sufficient to soothe and mitigate our alb
| ject misery.
| The pen refuses to depict the horrors.
The heart trembles ut the very thought
of the unspeukable misery, and every
| fibre quivers ut the recollection of the
fearful terrors through which we have
just passed. The picture is terrible. It
recalls to my mind the times of the In
QUESTION, and the horrors of the Paris
blood wedding. Like hoard of wild
beasts just escaped from their cnges. the
mob, gosded to madness by funatical
priests, and instigated to excessive fury
by rascally iutriguers, few through the
streets bowling for revenge. The MUIR
derous, blood-thirsty rabb!e rushed un-
restrained from hnuse to house, from
street to street. Henrtless and without
pity, they spared neither tottering old
age. the trembling woman, nor the babe
at its mothers breast.
Without power for resistance, our
brethren were subjected to the most in
human and barbarous treatment. Wives
and daughters were outraged before the
very eyes of husbands and parents; their
houses were plundered, our sanctuaries
dcsecrated, our sacred law-rolls stolen,
and even our dead were not spared, but
their slumbers disturbed, and our ceme-
terry destroyed. Many succumbed to
the wounds they received. Outraged
wives and girls hide their dishonor,
starving aud freezing in grave-like
| cellars. Sick men and women lie, de.
void even Of a straw bed, in shantes
without windows and doors, with no
| pillows to rest their heads. 10 blanket
to cover their feverish bodies. Hun
dreds of unfortunates, robbed of all save
the clothes they wear, pale with terror,
wander, starving and without shelter,
from door to door, from street to street,
and beg for succor at the doors of those
few who were spared or suffered less
than they.
We can go no further, overcome by
our agony, and rendered destitute of
words by the intensity of our sufferings,
we can soy no more.
Brethren. so far but little has been
done to relieve our misery, to dry the
tears Of these unfortunates, or to miti-
gate their sufferngs. Therefore, we to-
day appeal to you. dear brethren, sons of
our Father, who. like us. pray to the ono
living God, the God of Israel, the foun-
tain of oil love. for whose sake We now
suffer; ana as we rely upon Him and His
mercy, SO do We hope for your generosi-
ty, your goodness and brotherly love,
and we are convinced that we will not be
disappointed in counting upon speedy
and efficient assistance ut your hands.
Let each give according to his means.
and each who will think of his unfortu-
nate and despoiled brethren will deem
himself rich. And now, receive in ad-
vance the most heartfelt thanks of our
congregation. The sincere prayers OF
those whom you will assist, the torrents
of tears of the widows and orphans now
flowing which you will dry. will call
down the richest and choicest blessings
from Heaven upon you, their bencfac.
tors.
IsRAEL1rIc CuLTUs CONGREGATION.
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