Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-15
THE HEBREW VOTE.
How IL win be Cast-HOW Grant Treated
the Jews, and What Wilson
Said Of Them.

/ SIR-DOes il not seem odd, in view OF
the approaching canvass, that the Jew
ish press, with probably one exception,
! should preserve such an ominous silence
on an issue which 50 nearly concerns
/ us all2 II the controversy involved DO
i litlcal questions merely, there might be
Just cause 70 keep alOof from the con-
I test, but in view Of the prosecutions to
/ which the Jews are subjected in this lat
Z ter day IN ROUmania, and since we all
know that both Grant and Wilson. who
are asking the sufffages O. the Ameri-
can people for the l0ftiest positions in
I their gift, are both enemies 10 the Jews,
20 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 I deprecate the
thought that any religious denomina-
ton should be obliged TO become clan
nish at any political struggle, believing
that all ereeds and sects had better
merge themselves into one common in
terest for the common good; but history
has vet to prove that we as a 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 Grauthas done against
Us we all but too well know, he having
issued that infamous order. hanishing
the Jews as a class from his district be-
cause, fOrsOOth, a few of them were
petty traders. But his own father, the
meanest and most plebian Of them all,
he permitted without let or hindrance %
make large contracts with cottOn-trad-
ing firms in Cincinnati to buy cotton
within General Grants lines, for which
he was to get a full share
of the profits for no better I
consideration than that his son,
General Grant, would pass them free T.
into his lines to purchase the said cot 4
ton, and, having done so, give them 1
safe conduct back again. 1t is not nv
wish, in this connection, to speak much |
of the master, but rather of the man
Henry Wilson, and therefore I beg here ]
with to submit a letter received from 1
DR.. Wise, the eminent Jewish divine of
of the Plum street temple at Cincinnati. (
The rabbi says:
Il" Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts. /
is the man who in 1851, in the most I
dangerous time, stated in open Senate, !
speaking on the conduct of Benjamin: I
8 He is the son Of that race which stoned /
the prophets and cTucitied the Redeemer
of the world In the Isrdeiite of 1861 |
the matter has been noticed
This cant would have found A more /
fitting place if expressed in a low grOg-
gerry in Water street, by fellow mad
dened with drink, rather than uttered
by the Hon. Henry Wilson in the Sen
ate of the United States. When, in the Z
British Parliament, the late Premier
was once taunted with being a
Jew, he at once replied: 81 am a Jew.
When the gentleman's ancestors were
naked savages on these islands mine were
princes in the temple. / 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 great and the small
q, as between a man who has devoted
he better part of his lie toward elevat-
ng the oppressed and dOwn-trOdden and
4 man the posture of whose greatness is
Is yet unknown, think you that as be
-ween these two men-the one so great
md lofty, the other so shallow, narrow
md mercenary--it is so difficult to dis
'ern on which side the masses of the in
American Jews viii stand when
he time comes?
MOSES LANDSBERG.
NEW YORK. June p, lSd2.