The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-11-26

Isaac Adolph Cremieux, Minister of JUS
tice in 184s, and q jealous defender and
champion of the rights of his oppressed
brethren. In 1910 he accompanied Sir
Moses Montefiore to the East for the pur-
pose of taking active measures in behalf
of the prosecuted Jews OF Damascus.
The greatest equity lawyer of England,
who has filed the exalted position Of
MASTER OF THE ROLLS,
During the present generation, is Sir
George Jessels, a strict member OF the
Jewish persuasion, who has been success
lively Senator of the University of Lon
don, Member of Parliament, Solicitor
General, and Master of the Rolls; while
the acknowledged leader of the English
bar is Judah P. Benjamin, Jew born in
New Orleans, and who, while awaiting
his admission to the bar of England,
wrote and published the best book upon
the law of sales, in existence. But in
England Disraei stands pre-eminent in
the 18th century; his ancestors bearing
different name, were driven from Spain,
and took refuge in the Benetian Repub-
lie, where, grateful to the God Of Jacob
who had sustained them through unpre-
cedented trials, and guarded them
through unheard of perils, they assumed
the name of Disraeli, q name never
born before or since by any other family
in order that their race might be forever
recognized. From this stock sprang the
great Premier, whose own life Is more
/. wondrous tale than that of Alroy, more
splendid romance than Tancred or Bene-
tia The philantropist, Sir Moses Mon
tefiore, was Sheriff of London, was
L n fho0 ion,
of her visit to the city in 1916, an0 was
shortly afterwards made a baronet. In
1910, with Cremieux, and on several
other occasions, he visited the East In
behalf of the Damascan Hebrews. In 1916,
he persuaded the Emperor Nicholas to
suspend the execution of an
EDICT AGAINST THE JEWS,
And was invited to visit Poland to con-
cert measures of relief for his suffering
brethren in that unhappy country. In
1854, he collected funds for the famine
stricken inhabitants of the East, and Sc
cured from the Sultan the privilege of
holding real estate in Jerusalem, where
he built poor houses and encouraged in
dustry and agriculture. In 1868, with
the help of Queen Elizabeth at Madrid,
he procured firman from the Sultan of
Morocco putting his Jewish subjects upon
| an equal footing with his Christian ones.
In his SD year, he made his last visit to
Palestine, to assist those who had suf-
| fered with the cholera, and whose crops
had been destroyed by locusts. The
| next year he went to Bucharest, to
use his influence against the ill
! treatment of the Jews of Roumanla.
In 1867 he endowed the Jewish College
at Ramsgate in honor of his deceased
wife. On September Oath, 1862, he was
presented with the freedom of the city
of London and a valuable present in to-
ken of his benevolence. In Spain Emilio
CASTELAR, ranks with the foremost men OF
the age, as an eminent orator and un-
compromising Republican. In 1864 he
founded journal called ssLa Dem0crG.
cia,'' in which he developed his social
and political principles. He was
CONDEMNED TO DEATH
In 1866, but escaped into France. In
1868 he returned to Spain, became a
member of the Cortez and leader of the
Republican party. He is considered the
ablest political orator in Spain, became
Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1873, and
was President of the Spanish Republic
from September 1878, to January 1874.
Once on time, as the fairy tales recite,
| William TX, Langrave of Hesse was alb
sorbed in game of chess, behind his
chair, silent and attentive to every move,
stood an unobtrusive Hebrew,
awaiting an audience with the
Prince. The game was going
| denly asked, "Do you understand
chess 2" Sufficiently well, your serene
Highness, to induce me, were the game
mine, to castle on the Kings side" That
was a master stroke, turning defeat into
victory, and SO delighting the King that
| he said, "You are q wise man; he who
can extricate chess-p player from such a
difficulty as / was in, must have a very
clear head for business" That wary
counsellor was Mayer Anselm Roths-
child, the first great Knight of the Red
Shield; that lucky hint secured to the
banker the use of $40 900 900 and gen.
erations of financial glory. The success
OF the Rothschilds is too well known to
need repetition here; one of that family,
however, was lin 1851 the first Hebrew
to enter the British Parliament, from
which his race had been before exclud-
ed. In that year statute was passed,
allowing either house to dispense with
the clause in the oath requiring the mem
Der to swear "upon the true faith of a
Christian whenever in its opinion the
public interest required it. Proclaimed
in the United States and France, the
rights of the Jews were recognized in
Holland, Belgium, Denmark, parts of
Germany, Canada and Jamaica, and in
1889, throughout Germany, Italy,
Hungary, and finally in Norway and
England. Among their
MOST JEALOUS DEFENDERS
Were the Frenchman Gregoire, the Pole
| Czacki, the German Welcker, the Irish
man O'Connell, the Englishman Lord
John Russell, the italian D'Azeglio, and
the Hungarian Eotvos, all Christians;
the Jews by descent Borne and Disraeli,
and the protesting Jews Jacobssohn,
Tugenhold, Riesser, Philipssohn, Mon
tefiore and Cremieux. The revolutionary
movement of 1848 8 proved the immense
progress of the Jews as well as public
opinion since the days of Mendelssohn
and Leasing. The Jews Cremieux, Good
chaux and Fould Minister of State)
were among the ministers of the French
republic. Pincherle was a member of
| the Provisional Government of Venice.
jacob, of Honigsberg, was leader of the
| opposition in the Berlin Parliament.
Reisser was Vice President of that of
Frankfort. DR.. Fischhof stood at the
head of affairs in Vienna after the fight
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