The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1880-08-07
The Wandering Jew.
4 Very Eloquent and Instructive
address
Before the University of Mississippi
By III. z. X. E,cing, Of Louis.
Jana.

UWU
The following address was de-
livered before the University OF
Mississippi by Mr.. Presley K.
Ewing, Of Louisiana, to an au-
dience consisting of between 1000
and 1900 people:
The mountains of the Bible
we'll repay the climber there is
glory aud grandeur from their
snmmits and moral braciqg in
the breathing of their difficult
air. just SO when we come to
look uil0n the colossal history,
and gaze from the heights OF civil
lied enlightenment upon the mag
niticent scene, which our subject
brings before us. What granuer
picture can he presented to the
cohtemplative mind than that at
torded by the sad aud suffering
story of the despised. and wander
ing jew? No legendary love. no ira
~
ditional myth can surpass in inter
est the thrilling events woven in
to the history of this much endu.
ring people. Glance we fora me
ment down the dim vista OF the
past, aud e-shall see that scarce
ly had the giories Of national lite
dawned upon them. thaaa success
sion Of black clouds rarely inter.
spersed with CLEANS OF light gath
cred DER. their halIowed Eden.
Surrounding the difficulties, con-
qnering all their foes, upheld by Il
holy faith aud !: divine decree, we
find them for ages, while the
the world lay in the darkness of
heatLenism, the conservatOrs of
morals and religion "the city set
on a hill,' the honored custodians
of that truth, which in Its fullest
development irridiates even the
habitatious of cruelty with its
beams. that glorious truth which
in its very nature makes men free.
But internal corruption aud exter,
nal foes, lust of power and above
all an utter faithfulneSs to God
given trust. wrought, as they
have ever wroueh-, for ruiz, and
amid the smoking ashes of "a holo-
caust of victims, their sun went
down in teals aud groans and
blood!
Captivity, bonds, PEI secution,
.deatll-in these stern words may
be written the history of the jew,
for long generations after tue
torch OF Titus had laid the beauti
full gates of Salem in the blacken
ell, bloody dust.
Yet, one by one, have their
early prosecutors faded into the
name.ess silence of Il ~disgraceful
Oblivion, leaving behind them
scarce IL landmark of their cruel
triumphs OF IL vestlge of their ma
tionaI identity. The Scourgius
Pharoahs have sunk beneath the
Red seas surging pillows with
out a grave, uuknelled, uncoffined
aud unknown" The gorgeous
monuments of Persian victories
have crumbled into dust, while
the prOudec civilizations of a la
ter age, that once had but to
frOwn in order to paralize a tremu
ling world, have drifted down
the Gothic tide and been engulf
Ell in the abyss Of time! And yet
amid the changes OF revolutions,
prosecutions aud national decay,
the Abral,amic race still live
homeless, indeed, aud in scatter
ell exile, but bound together and
lovingly linked to the sacred
past by the eternal bonds of Id
iOnal and fraternal love. Tie hot
lv principles which had been
whispered to them through the
flaming fires of Sinai have du.
ring the intervening centuries re
manned buried in their royal
hearts, and OH the brow of that
"clOuded mount" is the glorious
birthplace OF philosophy and let.
tiers, the very cradle of morals
and OF prayer. The story OF the
Hebrew race since the dawn OF
the Christian era is alas! red
with oceans of martyrs blood.
See how he lal,gnisbes beneath
the tyrant's lash in the Romish
Ghetts, then pleads for mercy at
the feet of some German Burgher.
Now Il new Pharoah arises and
the chivalric Edwards consigns
the English Jew to eternal Danish
ment. The gentle Isabel, WELD
ing as a tool the savage lnquisi
ton, doomed to dreary exile halt
a million sorrowiug souls!! Who
who could delineate the unparal
leIed horrors Of this expulsion,
but one page in catalogue OF
crimes History pauses, blushins
at the task Of recounting. their all
but unreasonable wrongs. Faitl,
full to the last. %rllnUinv with.tlu.fh