The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-06-05

came all property reverted to the original
owner. Every fifty years, God, the King.
assumed the soil, and gave back to the des-
pendants of the first possessor the rightoi
their Inheritance. This constant recurrence
to first principles is seen among ourselves,
for we have learned nothing of government
during the past century. The ancient tribes
went in and out Of the union whenever they
pleased. and they had their slaves. Jap
plause.l
Jerusalem, he said, still sits in solitary
grandeur on Judea's hills, and the stones OF
its temple, though crumbled, are reverenced,
and, just as thought is more lasting than
granite, will remain revered to the end.
Applause The pyramids may fade and fall
away, and no deep sealed remembrance will
remain, but Jerusalem shall always stand a
| brighter and more glorious monument than
towering spire Of any church in Christendom
The wanderings and sufferings of these peo-
pie during eighteen hundred years is not to
be pursued, nor would he, as Christian man
to believe it all. And what does their re-
ligion convey in this particular That the
wrath of religious bigot is worse than the
cruelest fortunes of hell.
Mr.. Vance here described the peculiarities
Of the various classes of Jews in different
countries, putting those in Europe and Amer
lea among the most intelligent and pro-
gressive. Their great longevity, freedom
from malarious diseases, and peculiarities of
form, were also spoken of and described
Mr.. Vance said that as man who had Civ
en- the subject the greatest and utmost
attention, he would assert that the Jews
to-day are the soberest, most in dustri-
Gus and moral people on the globe. Jap
plause.l He said he never knew yet of a
Jew being imprisoned for anything above
misdemeanor. [Applause.l They contrib
ute much in charity to the Gentiles, but
never ask them for charity in return. The
most they have ever asked has been to be
let alone. (Applause.I If Jew breaks
down in business, they set him up again,
and he never saw Jew that could not
read, write and compute figures, especially
the figures. Laughter and applause.l-
They do not seek political power, and
though the greatest in the extent of their
business transactions, seldom own ships or
property. They are always ready to pick up
and start when the day arrives. Laugh
teri
Great credit was extended the Jews by
the lecturer for their having been the first to
benefit the world by introducing the bill Of
exchange. Whenever, he said, the iron
hand was taken from their throat they adj
vanced. 1t was only OF late that Jew was
announced to have taken lease on the Per-
sian nation, and no country to-day could war
against the power of the house founded by
Rothchilds. Christian men are taught by
Jewish rabbis, the world has listened with
delight to Jewish song, the voice of Jewish
orators is heard in the courts and senate
and If it be true, or halfway true, that the
persecution OF the nation has been unjust,
what have we to answer for?
True, in this enlightened country all the
restrictions have been removed from Israel
ties, and are only fastened on those whose
forefathers founded the land and bled in it's
freedom. [Applause.l But there is still a
statute in the book that should be removed
if Jews are to be judged by their merits
like the children of the civil rights bill
[laughterl, who have never given US relig-
ion, laws or anything else, and who have
always been serfs. [Applause.l The lee
turer admitted that Jews had faults as citi
zens, and believed there were Jew swim
dlers, but not enough of them to compare
with Christian swindlers. He had found that
a Jew could not make living in New Eng
land, for Jonathan, with knife and shin
gle, could white Isaac out Of his door-steps
before he was aware of it. [Laughter.] The
lecturer closed by prophesying beautiful
and glorious morning for the Jewish nation.