The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1874-03-19
The Scattered Nation.
ELOQUENT LECTURE IN BALTIMORE ON
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: BY HON. O..
B. VANCE.

B. VANCE.
The lecture of Gov Vance in Baltimore
last Friday night, was attended by about
eleven hundred people. It was delivered
under the auspices of the Bryan, Stratton
and Saddler Business College. Present
were Senator Ransom ofthis State, Hons.
R. B. Vance and W. NJ Robbins of North
Carolina, members of Congress, and other
distinguished gentlemen. The Baltimore
Sun says:
Mr. Vance started out be saying that in
giving lecture under the auspices Of a
business college, he thought fitting sub
ject would be the greatest commercial
people in the world. There is a river in
the ocean (the gulf stream) of large ex-
panse, whose waters ebb and flow all un-
affected by the turbulent billows and furi-
Gus waves around and so there is river
among mankind which refuses to mingle
with surrounding waters, and whose own
characteristics can be discovered with the
naked eye. This river is the Jewish peo-
pie.
The history of the Jews is the history
of our people. They were the faithful of
God, and their ideas still continue to fill
the world. Just as the sun which sets
behind the hills reflects its glorious rays,
the thoughts Of Israel, no more nation,
still remain.
We admire the ancient Greek and Ro-
man nations, but reject their God as idol
airy. 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 cher
ished the same ideas and Institutions
Their exile has made them a commercial
people, and though prosecuted by Popes,
Emperors and nations, they remain the
same. Aye, what persecution They
submitted to cruelty in the namo of their
own God, within hearing of the hymns
their psalmists had sung. With all their
persecution, the Jewish people are still
standing, though the stones of their tenn
pie have fallen. What is the line Of the
Pontiffs, to that great aud glorious line of
Isaac and the rests2 Tie first poptif. and.
for that, tho Saviour Of the world were
Jews. Every Christian church of to-day
is graft upon the Jewish church, and
each christian perpetuates the jew. The
lecturer hore entered into a clear and 10
gical review of facts, showing that the
Jewish nation was the first to recognize
one God, one great governing and direct
ing power, that was unsubjective to kings.
The beauties and riches of Palestine, and
the condition of the Jews in ancient time,
were told of with glowing language and
thoughtful expression by the lecturer.
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 chief, and could secede
from other tribes in considerations Of their
own whenever desirable. 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-
yerted to the original owner. Every fifty
years God, the King, assumed the soil
and gave to the descendants of the first
possessor of the soil the right Of their in
hcritance. This constant recurrence to first
principles is seen among ourselves, for we
have learned nothing ofgovernment during
the past century. The ancient tribes went
in and out of the Union whenever they
pleased, and they had their slaves. [Ap-
plause.
Jerusalem, he said, still sits in solitary
grandeur on Judea's hills, and the stones
Of its temple, though crumbled, are rever-
enced, and just as thought is more lasting
than granite, will remain revered to the
end. [Applause.] The pyramids may
fade and fall away, and no deop-seated
remembrance will remain, but Jerusalem
shall always stand brighter and more
glorious monument than the towering
spire of any church in christendOm. The
wanderings and sufferings Of these people
during eighteen hundred years are not to
be pursued, nor would he as as a Chris
tian man wish it, for it staggers human
credulity to believe = all. And what
does their religion convey in this partlcu'
lar b? That the wrath of a religious blgot
is worse than the cruelest tertures OF hell
Mr.. Vance here describedthe peculari-
ties of the various classes of Jewsin dif-
ferent countries, putting those in Europe
o,d Amer;ca among the most intelligent