Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-09
The Jews In Germany.

DR., Gotsnrll is delivering h cHutse OF iec!ufes
in Nsg York on the Germac Jews lu one OF
his recen! discourses he SAID:
There is at this moment, topic OF absorb
Ing Interest to whoh We may We'll devote some
attention. and that is the present position OF cur
bretbreu 10 Germany. la .restiug this SUI Jeot
| shall b.Ve 70 give bret sk5tches or thelr past
/ istory 60 thai you may kuoT woo tnose people
are and what they have dono i0r toe county
10 which they are DoW sutJ :cted 10 sVcn otter
persecu ion The iime as which Lor Jews 1rst
settled 10 Germiry L. wrapped IN the dalSness
cf Iiyh:, aud .hls Circumstances alone would
lead US 20 believe that they must have Dcen
| there for vtly org DsilJd. a Hebrew cGIn"
meutator of h,. MIDDLE Ages assures Us that
ss early as 400 years before our present era.
when there Was ereGt saugb .et Of the Jews
in Palestine, go that ono tribe was Dea!J 40
pihiatet, large number OF lsraelItes fed from
their native couotry and ultimately fouud refuge
on the spot where nov stands the city OF
Worms. Tradition also tells Us that one thou
sand years later messengers we're sent to
Worms asking the } ews living there to appear
at Jefu salem and take part 10 the celebration
of the annual fess>s. They answered, We
have built new Jerusalem here on the bor
ders of the Rhine and We will have none OF the
old one.' NJ wonder, then. that tue Jews OF
Worms played prominent part 10 the modern.
izjpp of Judaism. Ii is said that at the tine
or the beginning Of the Christian Church
the Sanbedrin at Jerusalem scot to lIqulre
of the rabbies at Worms what they thought OF
the new Galilean teacher, and that they replied
with protest against carrying out the utmost
rigor of the law 10 bis Case. Tnus they were
Innocent of the blood that was shed on Calvary.
It is further shown by legend that those Jews
who first settled 10 Germany had no band 10
that trsgedy at Jerusalem, and therefore they
are 10 20 way responsible tor that deed. Iher
hands were c.ean in regard to whatever guilt, IT
any, there may have been 10 that act. lradl"
ton slso inforus US that the Jews had se!tled
10 Germany before that country commenced to
have history. If the Jews were not the old.
est Inhabitants of Germany, these stories would
be too clumsy to have imposed on the crtduIly
OF auy people. About sky years before the
commencement of the present era j sRs began
to approach the borders of ths Rhine, aud then
| com mepced long War cf u'jagau9o. Macy
Jews were residents of Rome ut this time sud
had tbsir Uwn syDag5euss 10 that clty. They
had sis) at tbas time settled 10 all the large
cities which then studded the shores of tee
Mediterranean. Many had found homes 10
Spain AID ia Fraucs. aod it is not at ell in
probable that some of them had vo!urteare
ioto the Rlusn army. as there vas 40
prohibition regarding sub enlislmeots. The
Rousn sword, while klI,og and makios
great devastation wherever il went, Was s's1
hstchct which cleared the road for civilization
and com ul-rce; and 1t is not likely tes. The
Jews would have lost the opportunity TO iai.
prove their condition and msnies. desire for pro-
gress. In tne year $50 OF our present era the
Emperor Constantine issued IN address to the
rul ers Of Cologne in which he stated That the
Jews Of Cologne were entitled to two or three
sesls in the ,gsterial forum Of th At city. Such
| were the number and il husnce of the Jews. of
whom we are told. Con=t.nine was never par
| tcularly tond. So ycu see that eight centuries
| before the German Empire exis.e1 or WIS even
| thought Of the Jews were there and were sub
.equently instrumenlsl-if they were not lh3
chisf lnstru nents in rescuing that country from
| barbsrism aud dslkaess And now, the ques
tion is as to whether those people are entitled to
the rights OF CIT z ns la country for which they
have done so much Again we hear of thess
people st the time of Cnsrlensge. aud then we
meet with period Of wonderful deveopement
among the Jews. How tley were sf!erward sub
jec,ed to persecution by Cbsrlemage, and what
| became of his efforts and himself shall ca.
| dssYor to set forth in the ns1t DISCOURSE"