The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-25

'):AY, j.: ! NOvE'MBEKa 4 J VI 'Nel]EIts Ktlaf p
for many a'mileI aawd datravsrsedeqthe
4 forest. ~ For leagues ibefore wsIaP'
| preached the city, this1objeots hyw13ez
fore ,usiinr rnlief upon thso f1ostyohll lt
4skya and stillitseemed never an ii b.
bcFeaseot. Such was the complaintp b
my littlen sister Marianmes,5siMob b
| Innocent chiId would that itslnarei
had increased isfor thy ieyes,: but.ore:
mained forever at a distance! sEbat
same hour began the series of mon
strous indignities which terminate ID
the career of my ill-fated family. LAS
we drew up to the city gates, the. iof:
fcer who inspected the passports,
finding my mother and sisters des-
cribed as Jewesses, which inmy moth
er's ears (reared in a region where
Jews are not dishonored) always
sounded a title of distinction, sum-
moned Il subordinate agent, who, in
coarse terms, demanded his toll. We
presumed this to be a road-tax for
the carriage and horses, but we were
quickly undeceived; "a small sum
was demanded for each of my sisters
and my mother, as for so, many head
Of cattle. I fancying some mistake,
spoke to the man temperately, and,
to do him justice, he did not seem Dc:
sirous Of Insulting us; but he produt.
ed q printed board, on which, along
with the yi1est animals, Jews and
Jeyesses were rated at t. so much b
head. Whilst; We ',*, were g debating, & The
point, the officers Of the gate wore: !
s1n1eeringl smile. upon ,1i their taces,-thk h b
positions were laughing together :
and. this, too,. il the: presence Of tire ,
creatures whose exquisite beauty, il
different styles, agreeably: to theeif|' & !
different ages, would have, caused no
blemen to have fallen down and We, worl
SHIPPED. : My mother, who had never
syet:met with any iAagrsnts insult 7en
account Of her national distinctions
was too much shocked = to be capable
:of speaking. l whispered to her. d
few words, recalling her to her native
dignity Of mind. paid the money, and
we drove to the prison. But the
hour was past at which we could be
admitted, and, a. Jewesses, my moth
er and sisters could not be allowed to
stay in the; city; they we're to 60 into
the Jewish quarter, part Of the SUBJ
urb set apart tor Jews, in which it
was scarcely possible to obtain a
lodging tolerably clean. My father,
on the next day, we found, to our hor-
ror, at the point of death. To my
mother he did not tell the worst Of
what he had endured. To me he
told that, driven to madness by The
insults offered to him, he had tup1
braided the court-nartial WITH; their
corrupt propensities, and had e1v1eah III b
MENTIONED that overtares had ;b'itah beeh
made to him for quashihg: The Spr6]
ceedings in return for a sum 'ofatwo
millions of francs and that his sole
reason for not entertaining the pro!
posal was his distrust of those who
made it. They would have taken my
money! said he,. and then found a:
pretext for putting me to death, that
I might tell NO secrets This was too
near the truth to be tolerated; in
concert with the local authorities, the
military enemies Of my father con-
spired against him,-wjtnesses were
suborned; and, finally, under some
antiquated law of the place, he was
subjected, III secret, to a mode of
torture which still fingers in the east
of Europe.
"He sank under the torture and the
degradation. I, too, thoughtlessly,
but by natural movement of filial
indignation, suffered the truth to e.
cape me in conversing with my moth
er. And She: but T will preserve
the regular succession of things:;0 MY
father died; but he had taken such
measures, in concert with me, that
his epemies should never benefit byI
his property. Meantime my mother:
and: sisters had closed my, fathers
eyes; had attended his remains to-
the grave; and in every act connect
ed with the last sad rite had met with
insults and degradations too mighty
for human patience. Ny mother,
now become incapable il Of self:;ciom-
im1and; in the fury Of her righteous
:grief, gi publicly; and in court denounced
the conduct Of the magistracy,-ta1ed
some of them with the vilest propos-
ais to herself, taxed them4as body
with having used instruments of tor
ture upon my father, and, finally. &C
cused them of collusion with the
French military oppressors of the dis
trict. This last was a charge under
which they quailed; for by that time
the French had made themselves
odious to all who retained spark of
patriotic feeling. My heart sank
within me when I looked up at the
bench, this tribunal of tyrants,: all
purple or livid with rage; when i
looked at them alternately and at my
noble mother with her weeping daugh-
ters,-these so powerless, those 50
basely vindictiye, and locally ornn-
ipotent:: Willingly l would have
sacrificed all my wealth FOR, i i. ! SIMPLE