The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1880-08-07

den shore, Listen to the sObbing
wall of a doomed and desolat.. ia
ton:
And shall we wander, whitening
In other lands to die?
And where our fathers ashes be,
Our Own may never lie;
Our temple hath not LIFT a stone.
And mockery sits in Salamls,
throne.
And TINS ever the victims of II
relentless hostility the Jews
have fingered Oh, passing from
one fiery ordeal to another, and
in every age and century leaving
on the worlds annals in striking
contrast to the lisgraceful record
OF their vile prosecutors d pure
aud spotless fame. Hebrew his
tory is but the history Of the pri-.
mary origin of almost every ina
ginable science !; while kabbini
cal literature is not only clothed
in the majesty of its own sublime
thoughts, but yields Il latent ITS
piratlon unknown in the records of
any country that has bequeathed
a literary legacy to po>terity.
Does any one ask whence the
Jewish scholars, L 3oint to DE
borah chanting beneath the
solemn palms sacred hymns of
victory, or to Jeremiah lament
ing in the most pathetic of ele
giac tones the great JoSiah's
death. Ask whence the latent
inspiration, and l point to the
blind old hero poet Milton. his
pen Dipped in inspiration, planned
for its highest flights by the mys
tic sweetness of the Hebrew melo
dies! Alas. that the Hebrew
with all %unequaled poetic genius
the Jew OF the later days has
but.a broken, tuneless lyre-his
harp on the willows and he for
ages cropping in a mental darkness
as dense as that which fell on
Egypt'of old a bondsman, not a
freeman, civilly distranchised, re
ligiously stigma,ized, and robbed
of every dearer social tel! But
womdrous changes come with
time! faithful, far-see!ng men like
Macauley have "spoused the
canse of the Jew, restored his ci
vii rights aud opened to him an
avenue of national and political
honor. The story of the broken.
hearted Mortara has had Il happy
issue in the frnltless edict Of Pope
Plus, which terminates forever
the oppression of the Romi>h
church.
Would that we conld honestly
say to-day in this too boastful
nineteenth century. that every
disability was removed. that
every shackle was forever broken !!
alas for the humanity Of man !
Alas for his christianity ! ut this
very hour, there are thousands
Of Jews in bondage as bitter as
when the task masters OF Egyyt
held them in their wicked hold
Do you doubt my word I? Does
any say, ''imposS'ble in this chris
tian age, in the fierce light which
beats on crime, such INDUSTRIOUS
horrar cannot he ~ Listen but IA
moment! From misunderstanding
of advancing liberty, claiming for
herself the championship of op
pressed people-from Russia. free
ing with one hand when COMPEL
ed her o. 600 seIfs. and en-
claiming her tens of thousands
for political of1enses in Siberia's
duugeons-trom Russia, wishing,
forsOoth, to convince America
that she is a friend of freedom,
has come within the last month
this most heart rending cry from
ten thousand bleeding hearts. Oh!
let it. l beg you, sink into Your
very souls: "Brethren, in this
hour OF all but hopeless misery.
groaning under the yoke Of cruel
and heartless despotism, driven
from homes and tiresides, perse
cuted by every conceivable mi
quitous cruelty, orr property and
our sources of livelihood ruthless
ly torn from our toifing hands ;
with hearts bowed in anguish,
abject in soul, our manhood crush
ed within us, desperate and for
lorn, we turn to you, to You in
your happy homes, aud we ask
you. We pray, We implore, we he
seech you to come to II rescue,
to take us out Of bondage aud out
of our misery ; to give us a chance
in your great and glorious land
OF llberty.:' Oh, America! my
country, thou friend of the friend
less, thon land OF warm hearts
and generous impulses, open thy
arms and take these wanderers
in!
Ninnn III, H-.1 ~