Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-07-27
(Contiuued fi,om FIRST psge.)
nation. at the Dissertation of place. erected

nations at the dissertation Of places erected or
used for the public worship of God.
The first house for public worship built in Salem
in 1929, when the Norshipfnl John Endicoii, the
first Governor Of Massachusetts,, was in office, is
now carefully protected and preserved in Salem
where Governor Endicott and his Council resided
But where is the Tabernacle erected IN the Wild
erness. when Moses was IN oi1ce Where Is the
Temple of Solomoni They have passed away
but siMoscs is read in the Synagogue every Sab
bath day," ard there is tradition, that when the
Temple was finished, King Solomon said-"How
beautiful is this house which have bullded OF
cedsrs, but when the King Christ shall come he
will bald a more glorious house of the trees OF
paradise"
There has been. from the time whereof the
memory of man ruuneth not TO the contrary" u
prejudice in the minds of very many persons
against the Jews. Fabian, in his account Of the
massacre, before mentioned, says of the rioters
that they "hated" the Jews for their usury, &c,
and they supposed they were favored or tolerated
IN their work of destruction. And the hatred or
prejudice az sinst the Jews has been nonrished
and kept alive when 1t ought to have been dis
couraged and allowed to die out.
Nearly three hundred years ago there lived one
William Shakespeare, who is the feputed author of
play entitled "The Merchant of Venice" in
which a jew, called Shylock, is compelled to
figure, and is made TO appear in the light and
exact Representation Of man, If such an one
might be called man, of not one spark of human
ity, or but little more than the rioters just men
toned and hated on account of his usury
Ii NAV well be doubted whether any such jew,
from the time of Abraham down to the present
day was ever 10 be found or will be. If so,
then the trial of his case before two three
women. self constituted Judges, with all other Of
hcers and process belonging or sppertaining to
Court of Justice, NAV supposed to have have hap
pened, together with the judgment of such
court and submission TO that judgment by an in
telligent man IN sncient and enlightened city,
where the art of printing had settled home long
before the great Shakespeare saw the light of
day.
Can any man, possessed of common sense, be
leve for q moment that man of property and
capable of taking care Of himself, would not have
found means by his attorney or otherwise TO ex-
anime the records of the courts Of Venice and dis
cover the fraud that had been praoticed; and then
y third Daniel might have come TO Judgment"
But Shakespeare "is an honorable man" and
the Court seems to have been composed of Qua
kers, for IL thank thee Jew for teaching me that
word,s is part of the play. Bat the whole story.
fiction or play, from beginning TO end, so far as
the supposed Jew is represented, appears to be an
injurious and base Islander against nation of such
4 noble ancestry other nation Of the Earth
could or can boast; and TO whom all the other
nations are under the greatest obligation; aud
whose book of the law is the ouy sure foundation
of every civilized government; nation that is to
remain although an end is made of all the nations
among which they are scattered.
Augusta. July q, 1873. ID. p.