Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-12
MODERN PERsECUToRs

The correspondent of the New Yorl
Herald, at St. Petersburg, writes:
sThe bigotry and intolerance of the Rou
ma1ian people and the incapacity or wilfu
neglect of the Roumanian government will
it seems, compel the Powers to interfere
again on behalf of the prosecuted Israelite3
whose position in Roumania is about wha
| it was all over Europe during the Middle
Ages. And these continual protests and
threats of intervention will, without doubt,
sooner or later, end in the wiping from tbs
map of Europe this bastard, semi-indepen-
dent little State, which certainly has no adj
equate rdisOR detre, no sufficient cause fol-
existence, even though it has to be done al
the risk of opening up the much-dreaded
Eastern question" -. s-sr.
This persistent bigotry of mixed breed
of barbarians may not excite surprise
But what shall be said of any citizen
of an. enlightened country who, in
the Nineteenth Century, panders to this
brutal prejudice against Israelites? There
have been such instances, and in this land
of religious liberty. The two men in mod
ern times who have made this appeal to
prejudice are Ulysses S. Grant and Henry
Wilson. The following statement from Mr..
Moses Landsbergh, of New York, recapitu-
lates the facts
In view of the prosecutions to which the
Jews are subjected in this latter day in
Roumania, and since we all know that both
Grant and Wilson, who now ask the suffra-
ges of the American people for the Hottest
positions in their gift, are both enemies to
the Jews, TO remain silent is to proclaim
ourselves impotent for good to those suffer-
ers in foreign parts who with outstretched
arms cry aloud for help which we can by
our suffrages in this contest in a measure
tender them. For myself | depreeate 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 them
selves into one common interest for the
common good; but history has yet 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 snite us. What Grant has
done against us we all but too well know,
be having issued that Infamous order, ban
ishing the Jews as class from bis district
because, forsooth, few OF them were petty
traders. But bis own father, the meanest
and most plebeian trader of tkem all he
permitted without let or hindrance to
make large contracts with cotton-trading
firms in Cincinnati to buy cotton within
Gen. Grants lines, for which he was to get
full share of the profits, for no better con-
sideration than that his son, Gen.
Grant, would pass them free into his lines
to purchase the said cotton; and having
done SO, give them safe conduct back again.
1t is not my wish in this connection TO
speak much of the master, but rather of
the man, Henry Wilson, 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: 5l7
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, is
the man who in 1861, IN the most danger
Gus time, stated in open Senate, speaking
on the conduct of Benjamin: 'He is son
of thai race which stoned the prophets and
craciied the Redeemer OF the world In
The IsrGeljte of 1861 the matter has been
noticed" ~ 90 -g.-v
This cant would have found q more fit
ting place were it expressed in low grog-
gerry on Water street, by fellow madden
ed with drink, rather than uttered by The
Hon. Henry Wilson in the Senate of the
United States. When in the British Par
Lament, the late Premier Disraelf was
once tainted with being Jew,i he
at once replied: 81 am a Jew. When !
the gehtlemen's ancestors were naked
sIvages on these islands, mine were princes
n the Temple. l feel every fibre of my