The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-08-08
VIII the Jews Vote for Horace Greeley 2

Totae Editor of the TTi6une-SIR: Doesit not
seem odd, in view of the approaching political
canvass, that the Jewish press, with probably
one exception, should preserve such an omi-
nous silence on an issue which 80 nearly con-
Germs US allf If the controversy involved po-
litical questions merely, there might be just
cause to keep aloof from the contest. But in
view of the prosecutions to which the Jews are
subject in this later day in Roumania, and
since we all know that both Grant and Wilson,
who now ask the sufrages of the American
people for the loftiest positions in their gift are
both enemies to the Jews, to remain silent Is to
proclaim ourselves impotent for good to those
sufferers in foreign parts, who with outstretched
arms cry aloud for help which we can by our
suffrages in this contest in measure tender
them. For myself l deprecate the thought
that any religious denomination should be
obliged to become clannish at any political
struggle, believing that all creeds and sects had
better merge themselves into one common in
terest for, the common good; but history has
yet to prove that we as people have gained
any civil or religious liberty by supporting
those that hate us, or by upholding the hands
of those that would smite us. What Grant has
done against us we all but too we'll know, he
having issued that infamous order, banishing
the Jews as class from his District, because,
forsooth, few of them were petty traders
But his own father, the meanest and most pie
biau trader of them all, he permitted, without
let or hinderance, to make large contracts with
cotton trading firms in Cincinnati, to buy cot
ton within General Grants lines, for which he
was to get full share of the profits, for no bet,
ter consideration than that bis son, General
Grant, would pass them free into his lines to
purchase the said cotton, and having done 80,
give them safe conduct back again. 1t is not
nv wish in this connection to speak much of
the master, but rather of the man Henry Will
son, and therefore beg herewith to submit
letter received from DR.. Wise, the eminent
Jewish divine of the Plum-street Temple, at
Cincinnati The Rabbi says:
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, is the
man who in 1861, in the most dangerous time,
stated in open Senate, speaking of the conduct
of Benjamin: He is the son of that race which
stoned the prophets and crucifed the Redeemer
of the world In the Israelite of 1861 the
matter has been noticed"
This cant would have found more fitting
place were it expressed in low groggery in
Water Street, by fellow maddened with drink,
rather than uttered by the Hon. Henry Wilson
in the Senate of the United States. When in
the British Parliament, the late Premier Dis
raeli was once taunted with being Jew, he at
once replied: IT am Jew. When the gentle
mans ancestors were naked sayages on these
islands, mine were princes In the Temple. l
feel every fibre of my frame thrill with the
traditions of my people," Since this question
resolves itself into what Senator Sumner aptly
styles as between the small and the great G., as
between a man who has devoted the better
part of his life toward elevating the oppressed
and wn-trodden, and man, the posture of
whose greatness is as yet unknown, think you
that as between these two men-the one so
great and lofty, the other SO narrow, shallow
and mercenary-it is so difficult to discern on
which side the masses of the intelligent Amer
ican Jews will stand when the time comes.
MOSES LANDSBERGE.