West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-07-14
THE JEWS INDICATED.
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Memphis Arpeo1
The Jews have distilled much
good to the race out of the insult
that has been offered them ty
purse-proud parvena. /. was our
intention to publish another batch
Of the comments Of the public
press, but the class of people in-
suited have been so triumphant!y
and universally vindica:ed that
such a publication is unnecessary.
The prisoner at the bar did not
know how badly he had been trea-
ed until he heard his lawyer portray
ing his wrongs, and the conduct of
Hilton has been Of advantage to
the Jews by sutjecting them to the
crucible of public criticism, and
they have come out refined gold,
for the press has united in paying
a tribute to people who are Or
derIy, intelligent, and in all res~
poets good citizens. For several
days last week Hilton run the gaun"
tlet of kicks and curses. For
three days ne was lambasted by
the newspapers, and on Sunday last
he was pilloried by the pulpit. The
New York Herald says: "When
Judge Hilton shut the doors of his
Saratoga hotel against the Jews
who seek that favorite watering
place in search Of health or pleas
urc, he little thought by that act
he would be raised 10 tho dignity Of
tho prosecutor of race and rcli-
gion. But it is upon that bad
eminence that he now stands. The
Israelites in the United States have
resented as one man the insult, and
yesterday Judge Hilton was
brought into every synagogue in
this city and held up to scorn aud
cxecration. He had been previ
ously punished liz The press, but tho
opportunity of criticising him in
the synagogues on the Jewish Sab
bath was not to be neglected. 1t
will be seen by our reports else
where that the issue is now much
broader than the mere question as
to whether hotcl-keepers have the
moral or legal right to refuse to ac~
cept Jews as guests. Rev. Or.
Huebsch denied that anything in
the history of Judism justified the
course of Mr.. Hilton while Rev.
DR.. DcSola Mendez compared his
action to the hostility manifested
toward ancient Israel by the Moa-
bites. Rev. Henry p. Mendes ac-
gued the question from hnmani-
tartan poiat Of view, and stated
that there were unworthy christians
as well as unworthy Jews, and
probably included Judge Hilton in
the former category, and DR.. ia
cobs treated it in its moral and re-
ligious relations to society. These
sermons are Of particular interest ag
!: the expressions Of the authorized
exponents Of the Hebrew faith, and
indicates the character Of the pro
test which will be made by the race
; every where. We shall soon hear
from the synagogues in other
American cities, and answers to
Judge Hilton's Pharaoh-liko de-
crces will como to Us from Europe.
This is one Of the most interesting
', religious discussions that have ari,
] sen of late years, and the more i'm
portant because it involvs net mcrc~
, ly questions of faith, but the frame,
, work Of society ITSELF"
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neg" John Stone Pullen, for
Y merly a New Orleans sugar mer>
/ chant, q member Of the Louisiana
: legislature, and a colonel in the
Confederate army, who loaned two
hundred thousand dollars to the
Confederate government, and was
S beggarcd by the results of the war