The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-03-05
Gov. yance,s Lecture on the Jews.

Gov. Vance,s Lecture on the Jews.
E1-Gov. Zebulon B. Vance, Of North Caro-
lima, recently 1ectured at the Masonic Temple
| in Baltimore, under the auspices Of Business
College. He chose for his theme the character
| istics and history OF the scattered Israelites,
and delivered an eloquent address, which wss
enthusiastically received:
Mr. Vance started out by saving that in civ.
! ing lecture under the auspices Of business
college, he thought fitting subject would be
the greatest commercial people in the world.
There is a river in the ocean (the Gulf stream)
of large expanser whose waters ebb and flow
all unaffected BY the turbulent pillows and
furious waves surrounding it; and 80 there is
river among mankind which refuses to min
gle with surrounding waters, and whose own
characteristics can be distinguished with the
We admire the ancient Greek and Roman
nations, but we reject their God as an idolatry
we despise the Jews, but reverence the religion
which they founded. For thousands of years
they have preserved the same customs, the
same forms and cherished the same ideas and
Institutions Their exile has made them
commercial people, and although prosecuted
by pOpes emperors and nations, they remain
the same. They submitted to cruelty in the
name of their own God. With ell the persecu-
ton the Jewish people and Church are still
standing, though the stones of their temple
have fallen The lecturer here entered into the
beauties and riches Of Palestine, and the coz
dition of the Jews in ancient times. g.
In speaking Of the perfect government Of
each and all the tribes of Israel, he said they
were allowed to carry arms elected their own
chiefs, and could secede from other. tribes in
considerations of their own whenever desira-
BILE. The chiefs served without pay-either
back or front. Laughter and applause They
exercised the inalienability Of property, and
when the day Of jubilee came all property re-
verted to the original owner. Every fifty
years God, the King, assumed the soil, and
gave back to the descendants of the first pos
SCISSOR the right Of their Inheritance. This COM
stant recurrence to first principles Is seen
among ourselves, for we have learned nothing
Of government during the past century The
ancient tribe went in and out of their Union
whenever they pleased, and they had their
slaves. [Applause:
on Judeas hills, and the stones of its temple,
though crumbled, are reverenced, and just as
thought is more lasting than granite will re-
main revered to the end. fApplause.] The
pyramids may fade and fall away, but no deep
seated remembrance will remain, but Jerusa-
lem shall always stand a brighter and moro
glorious monument than the towering spire Of
any church in Christendom. The wanderings
and Sufferings of these people during 1880
years is not to be pursued, nor would he IS
man credulity to believe it all. And what does
their religion convey in this PARTICULAR That
the wrath of a religious bigot is worse than the
cruelest tortures OF hell. - on
Mr.. Vance here described the pecaliarities OF
the various classes Of Jews in different coun-
tries putting those in Europe and America
among the most intelligent and progressive.
Their great longlevity, freedom from malarious
diseases, and peculiarities of form were also
spoken of and described. Mr.. Vance said that
as a man who had given the subject the great
est study and utmost attention, he would as"
sert that the Jews to-day are the sobriest, most
industrious and moral people on tho globe.
[Applause.l He said he never knew yet Of
Jew being imprisoned for anything above
msdemeanor. [Applause.l They contribute
much in charity to the Gentiles, but never @ ask
most they have ever asked has been to be let
alone. [Applause1 If q Jew breaks down III
business they set him up again, and he never
saw Jew who could not read, write and COM
pute figures, especially the figures. Laughter
and applause.] They do not. seek politica!
power, and though the greatest in the extent Of
their business transactions, seldom own ships
or, property. They are always ready to pick up
and start When the DAY afTyes tS kanghhsert he
lecturer for their having been the first to bene-
fit the world by introducing the bill Of ex-
change. Whenever, he said, the iron hand was
taken from their throat they advanced. It was
only Oh iaIe tIlaC Jew was auNOuuceu 10 uAf0
taken lease on the Persian nation. and no
country to-day could war against the power of
the house founded by Rothschild. Christian
men are taught by Jewish rabbis, the world
has listened with delight to Jewish song, the
voice of Jewish orators is heard in the Courts
and in the Senate; and if it be true, or half
way true, that the persecution Of the nation
has been unjust, what have we to answer fora
Trues in this enlightened country all the re-
strictions have been removed from the Israel
ties, and are only fastened on those whose fore
fathers founded the land and bled in its free
dom. [Applause.] But there Is still a statute
in the book that should be removed If Jews
are to be judged by their merits like the chill
dren of the Civil Rights bill [laughter1, who
have always been serfs. [Applause.] The lee
turer admitted that Jews had faults as citizens,
and believed there were Jew swindlers, but
not enough of them to compare with Christian
swindlers. He had found that Jew! could not
make living in New England, for Jonathan
with his knife and shingle could whittle Isaac
out of his door-steps efore he was aware Of it.
[Laughter.] The lecture closed with prophe1
cying beautiful and glorious morning for the
Jewish nation -..s-t.t & 49,. .i'fi isct' -