The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-20
rag sCArTERED PEOPLE.

| An eloquent Address by Non. IL. u.
| Vance, VI North Carolina.
Reported for the Baltimore Sun.
Hon 2. B. Vance, Ex-Governor OF
North Carolina, lectured at the Mason
ic Temple last night, under the auspices
of Bryant, Stratton & Sadler COLI
legs. Upon being introduced by Mr.. Sad
Her, Mr.. Vance was enthusiastically re-
ceived. About eleven hundred persons
were present. Among the gentlemen on
the stage were the following, who came
from Washington expressly to be pres
ent at the lecture DR.. George r.
Dennis, senator from Maryland !;
General NJ. w. Ransom and Colonel
William Johnston, senators from North
Carolina Hon. R B. Vance and Hon.
II. Fl. Robbins also OF North Carolina,
and Colonel Fl E. Peytop, OF Virginia,
and Colonel Woollord, Of Maryland.
Mr. Vance started out by saying that
in giving lecture under the auspices
of business college, he thought fit
ting subject would be the gratest com
mercial people in the world. There is
a river in the ocean (the gulf stream
of large expanse, whose waters ebb and
, flow all unaffected by the turbulent bill
lews and furious waves surrounding 1t !;
and 80 there is a river among mankind
which refuses to mingle with surround
ing waters, and whose own Characters
tics can be distinguished with the ma
Iked eve. This river is the Jewish peo-
pie.
The history Of tbs Jews is the his
tory of our progress. They were the
faithful oil God, and their ideas still
continue to fill the world Just as the
SUI, which sets behind the hill, reflects
Tits glorious rays, the thoughts OF Israel,
no more a nation, still remain.
We admire the ancient Greek aud
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 came forms, and cherished the same
ideas and institutions. Their exile has
made them a commercial people, and
lalthougn prosecuted by popes, empe.
rors, and nations they have remained
the same. Aye, what a persecution
They submitted 10 cruelty In the name
of their own God within hearing OF the
hyms their Psalmists had sung. With
all the persecution the Jewish people
aud Church are stlll standing, though
the stones OF their temple have fallen
What is the line Of the pontiffs TO tha
great and glorious line OF Isaac and the
rest2 The first ponuff, and for that
the Saviour OF the world, were Jews
Every Christian Church to-day is 6
; graft upon TIE stock OF the Jewlst
|, Church, and each Christian perpctuate'
the Jew. The lecturer here entered
!. into logical and clear review OF facts
showing that the Jewish nation were
the first to recognize one God, one grsa
governing aud directing power tina
: was unsubjeclive to.king. The beautle;
and riches of Palestine, and the condi'
ton OF the Jews il ancient time, wer'
each told OF with glowing language anc
thoughtful expression by the lecturer
In speaking Of the perfect govern
ment OF each and all the tribes CT lsarel
he said they were allowed 10 carry arms
elect their own chiefs, and could seced
from other tribes 10 confederation o
their own whenever desirable. TIT
chiefs served without pay-either bacl
or front. Laughter and applause
They exercised the inalienabiity Q
, property, and when the day OF Jubilee
i came all property reverted to the Org
: inai owner. Every fifty years God, tn
King, assumed the soil, and gave hscI
TO the defendants of the first possesso
: Tue right Of their inheritance. Thl
= constant recurrence to first principles
seen among ourselves, for we hav
: learned nothing Of government dur!nn
!; the past century. The ancient trib
! went in and ont of their Union when
i ever they pleased. and they had the'
: slaves. Applause :.
Jerusalem, be said, still Fits in coll
tsry grandeur on Judah's hills, and to
= stores ofits temples, though erumbIed
are reverenced, and just as thought !
more lasting than granite, Will renal
revered to the end. Applause Tn
: pyramids may fade aud tall away, ant
no deep-eeated remembrance VIII re
main, but Jerusalem shall always stan
a brighter and more glorious monu
mant than the towering spire OF an
, church in christendom. The wander
o ings and sufferipgs OF these people dur
). ing eighteen hundred years are not Il
be pursued, nor would he as Chris
: tan man wish it, Tor il staggers huma
creduIity 10 believe it all. And VIVA
=. does their religion convey In this par
\ tiulsr? That the wrath OF religion
b bigot is worse than the cTreleSt 'ol
a ture ofhell.
i Mr.. Vance here described the peou!
|. ari,ies of the various classes OF Jews !
!. different countries, putting those
y America among the most Intelligent an
n progressive. Their great longeV't.
freedom from malarious diseases, an
Dr. peculiarities o. form were also spoke
? OF and described. Mr.. Vance said ths
as a man who had given the suble'
the greatest study and utmost attenuo
he would assert that the Jews to-ds
are the soberest, most industrious an
moral people on the globe Applause
N He said he never knew yet OF Je'
b.ius imprisoned Tor anything above
!. msdemeanor. Applause They COZ
= tribute much 10 charity TO the Ger
re tiles, but never ask them for charity
return. Applause The most the
have ever asked has been 10 be j
alone Applause ia Jew breai
down in business they set him up agai
and be never saw Jew that could nj
read, write, and compute figures, esp
c;allv the figures. Laughter and a.