Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-23


The continued persecution Of the Jews
in Roumania has attracted the attention of
the rulers in Europe, and some Of them are
moving in the matter by letters and appeals
to Prince Charles of Hohenzollern. Victor
Emmanuel, of Italy, lately addressed note
TO Prince Charles as ruler of Roumania, in
which he expressed hope that such acts
of intolerance and cruelty as those prac-
ticed upon the Jews in his domin-
ion would be prevented. 1t now ap-
pears that the Sultan of Turkey is in
sympathy and accord with the King of Italy
upon the subject, and early in the present
year dispatched an official note from Con-
stantinople to the Bucharest government,
demanding that the severest punisbments
should be inflicted on the ringleaders in the
Outrages recently perpetrated on the Jews
in Moldsvia. The note reminded the
Roumanian government Of the terms of the
twenty article of the Treaty of
Paris of 1856. This article provides basis
for arrangements being made between
tie Porte and the Protective Pow
ers for Turkish Intervention in
Roumanis in such cases. The Protective
Powers viewed the conduct Of the Porte
with appreciation. However they may de-
sire to aid in she development of the Rou-
msuian kingdom, they cannot, as their Min
listers acknowledge, sanction a development
which takesthe form of a revival of the worst
class of religious intolerance-that which is
exercised by an ignorant and fanatical mob
These official acts and remonstrances will
have the effect Of bringing the whole ques-
ton of the persecution Of the Jews in
RoumaDis prominently before the crowned
heads Of Europe, and the Philadelphia Age
expresses the opinion that they will be
obliged to take some action in regard to
these repeated Outrages, which shame the
civilization, enlightenment and progress of
the present age. They cannot afford to
have one small spot in Europe poison the
whole continent. In the meantime, Con-
tinental journals are looking at the occur
rences in ROmania from all possible points
of view in order to find the fountain head
of these streams Of bigotry and intolerance
which are running with a spring tide in
Roumania. That they are fed, says
the Age, from some fountain high
er than the source Of the out
RACES is certain. The mere ebullition of
vulgar passion and prejudice would not pro-
duce such attacks upon a religious denom-
ination as these which have fallen upon the
Jews Of Roumania. They are marked by
intelligent preparation and judgment as TO
time and place, in order to produce the
most startling effects. More than one Ger
man expresses the opinion that Russia is the
moving hand in this matter; that for some
Interior purpose connected with her designs
upon 7 Likely and the surrounding PROVING
es, she stirS up these fires of persecution,
and keeps Roumania in hot water. It is
alleged that Russian agents have been
seen in the dOminions Of Prince Charles,
and that Russian gold has been traced into
the hands OF men prominent in the anti
Jewish movements. These allegations are
being discussed with great earnestness by
more than one influential journal in middle
Europe, and they cannot long be kept ont
of legislative bodies and diplomatic as
semblages. When these points are reached,
the explosion will come. Russia will then
be compelled to explain her connection with
the brutalities practiced upon Jews inRou
mania, or take the consequences Of an, ad-
verse combination formed BY the other
nations in the interest Of humarAg, charity
and progression: