The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-06-20

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Ofthe Spanish and Hungarian peo
pie it is needless to speak, rs but few
of them reach our shores to become
citizens.
And as to the Danes, Swedes ant
Norwegians, most that we have sait
Of the Germans will apply to them
The glories of Charles XII. and Gus
tavus Adolphus are well known to on
youth. They make excellent citizens
and should be ever welcomed to oul
good hermitage.
TO conclude, we are brought to speak
of race the most remarkable, the
longest prosecuted, and lin some sense.
the least understood the world has ever
seen-the chosen but dispersed people
of God-the Jews. Go where we may,
to every city, village and hamlet, in
this broad land, we meet them; and
from infancy to old age, we are accus-
toned to hear them mentioned by III
considerate epithets ofreproach. Omit
ting illusions to their inspired history,
their trials, captivities, victories and
glories, for nearly nineteen hundred
years they have emphatically been a
nation without u country; dispersed
from the cente- to the circumference of
the earth, prosecuted, plundered, ex-
lied, tortured, often denied the rights
of humanity, contemned, scourged,
and yet, by the inscrutible will of the
great King of kings, they stand forth
to-day in all the panoply of peculiar
and a conscientious people, true to
their blood, their faith and traditions,
uncorrupted by persecution and unde-
filed by adultery. They have borne
the frowns and scoffs of the christian
world for nearly nineteen centuries
yet time, the great healer and
purifier, has at last won for them
the sympathy, and among gen
erous minds, the respect of the
world. The once detested name Of
"Jew" no longer serves as stigma,
except among unlettered men. And
when we come to study the real char
aeter of this wonderful people, as con-
tradistinguished from the fictitious
character painted by blind prejudice
and dark visaged intolerance, we find
them to possess many of the most no.
~ +-"'ts that ever advanced any peo-
pie in any age. Raise the emblem Of
distress-appeal for charity to stricken
humanity-and WHO sooner than the
Hebrew will respond with q hearty
good will? Ransack your memofy,
and say who.
See that emaciated, poverty-stricken
stranger dying on the street and who'
sooner than the Jew, will give OF his
substance for his relief You who have
had occasion to test the matter, pause
and ask who? When the pestilence
comes, stalking through the city, re-
specting neither age, sex, nor condi-
ton, and multitudes flee, who, more
than the Jew, stands his ground, bears
his breast to the storm, and risks sub
stance and life to succor the dstressed'
Let those who have passed the dread
ordeal recall their experience, and ask
who?
When the wall of famine comes to
our shore from other lands, and the
cry for bread is sped through the land
who, sooner than the Jew, responds in
liberal contributions OF all people
on earth, when an unfortunate brother
comes along, who so soon or so uni
formly as the Jew will lend him d
helping hand to appease his wants anc
set him fairly afioat on the sea OF
life?
Again, of all the Jews you ever knew
how many We're drunkards or yaga
bonds 4? How many robbers or mur
derers? How many debauchees o.
adulterers? How many malcontent
or enemies to law and the peace of so
ciety, demagogues or traitors? How
many who swindled their credi
tors, committed forgeries or made re
ligion a cloak for villainy? Refresl
your memory, review your past obser
vations and answer all these question
fairly, as compared with other people
and then say, i'm the honesty ofyou
hearts, if your early impressions Of th
Jews, however obtained, were not cru
ely at fault.
On the contrary, despite long cen
! turies of ostracism and persecution
. the Jews have ever maintained hig
order of learning. They have founde
the noblest institutions of charity an
, benevolence. They have, in the dari
l est hours, been the wisest counsellors {
: kings, even in lands where they ha
, been scourged, as in Spain, Portugs
, and Bohemia They have, by the
D timely aid, rescued bankrupt nation
r from ruin. Through the dark age
= when learning went into an eclips'
{ the Jews of Spain, under the heav
r load they had to bear, still maintaine
e the highest order of culture, and whe
: finally driven forth by the cruel fiat
t bloody tyranny, they found federation
n if not liberty, in Poland, Bohemia an
n London, where, for centuries, the
n have maintained their own charitab
7, institutions, dispensed the noblest be-
J, efactions, and financially saved Il
b country In its greatest trials until !