The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-07-18
NEacaHIay ora the Jews.

From Speech in Parliament
We never fail to plead in justification
of persecution the vices this very perse-
cujion has engendered. England has
been to the Jews less than halt a cOun-
try, and we revile them because they do
not feel for England more than half a
patriotism. We treat them as slaves,
and wonder that they do not regard us as
brethren. We drive them to mean oc-
equations, and then reproach them for
not EN- bracing honorable professions. We
long forbade them to possess land, and
we complain that they chiefly occupy
| themselves in trade We shut them out
from all the paths of ambition, and then
we despise them for taking refuge in av-
arice. During many ages we have IN all
our dealings with them abused our i'm
mense superiority of force, and then we
are disguised because they have recourse
to that cunning which is the natural and
universal defense Of the weak against the
violence of the strong. But were they
always a mere money-getting, money
changing, money boarding race? Nobody
knows better than my honorable friend
from Oxford, that there is nothing in
their national character which units
them for the highest duties of citizens.
/ He knows that, in the infancy of civiliza-
! ton, when our island was as savage as
/ New Guinea, when letters and arts were
still unknown to Athens, when scarcely
a matched hut stood ON what was after
ward the site of Rome, this condemned
people had their fenced cities and cedar
palaces their splendid temple, their
fleets of merchant ships, their schools Of
sacred learning, their great statesmen
and soldiers their natural philosophers,
| their historians and poets. What nation
ever cOntended more manfully against
overwhelming odds for its independence
and religion? What nation ever. in its
/ last agones, gave such signal proofs of
what may be accomplished by brave
despair? And if, in the course Of many
/ centuries, the oppressed defendants of
warriors and sages have degenerated,
/ from the qualities of their fathers if
/ while excluded from the blessings Of law,
and bowed down under an oppressive
woke, they have contracted some vices,
/ shall we consider this a matter of re-
proach to them Shall we not rather
consider it matter of shame and re-
morse to ourselves? Let Us do Justice to
them Let US open to them every career
/ in which ability can be displayed. Till
we have done this, let US not presume to
say there is no genius among the coun-
/ trymen of Isaiah, no herOlsm among the
descendants of Maccabees.
! For downright cheek in the plagiary
/ business commend us to General @
Prentiss Ingraham, of Mississippi, and
late of the Confederate army, who, says
the Philadelphia Press, recited portions
of his beautiful decoration day poem at
the late celebration upon the classic field
of Gettysburg:
The banner OF the South is furled-its folds
/ are tattered.
Its staff is broken, all its valiant hosts are
scattered
! Over whom it tiOated high.
! once. six millions hailed it gladly.
/ Once. ten toGsands wildly, madly swore it
! should forever fly.
Many hands that bravely grasped it,
Many hearts that fondly clasped it,
/ Cold and dead are lying now.
! Yet we love the hands that bore it,
/ Weep for those who fell before it,
And TO Fate we humbly bow.
''Furl the banner, softly, slowly,
| Furl it gently , it is holy.
! For it droops above the dead.
Touch il not unfurl it neverl
Let it droOp there, Jtrted J0reuer"'
In the first place, we never heard OF
General P. Ingraham, (says the Calves
ton News and next we venture the as
sertion that there is hardly ten-year old
child in the South bat recognizes in the
above extract, mangled though it be, the
beautiful and touching lines by the Poet
Priest, Father Ryan, entitled 1.-The Con
| quered Banner