The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-20
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BIZ BENy. /. COHEN.

BIZ BENZ. I. COHEN.
The following lecture was delivered
before the Young Mems Hebrew Associ-
alton ct Portland, Or, November IA,
by BENZ. I, Cohen: Spain, the Sunny
home OF the olive and the vine, was the
chosen abode Of lsrael's wanderers. long
ere the gates Of Centa opened to admit
the Moorish conqnerors. And above all,
in Southern Spain had they become the
favoritas Of fortune, where being the
principal cultivators of the soil, they had
aroused the jealousy and excited the Gu
pidity Of the Goths, who attempted by o
series Of barbarious decrees, to drive
them from the land which their industry
and intelligence had made to blossom as
the rose. The Jewish population
Of Spain, Of Arab descent,
turned in this dark hour,
an appealing glance TO their brethren OF
the Crescent, whose banners could be
seaD- 70 wave and the sound of whose
Tecbir war CRY could almost be heard
across the narrow strait which separates
Spain from Africa. THE overthrow Of
the Gothic Kings was as much achieved
by the superior information which the
6aracens received from their suffering
kinsmen as by the resistless valor of the
desert" And then shone the dawn Of
q glorious day for Israel's race. Hand
in hand, and heart to heart, with their
Moorish friends, they mounted the lad
der Of fame. Both alike reared fair
palaces and filed the highest offices OF
state. The leading physicians we're Jews,
and grave professors cast abroad the
dazzling light of secular science, min
gled with the lucent rays Of Talumdical
lore. An extensive and enlighted COM
merce
SUPPORTED THIS sPLENDoR,
While noble universities hourished for
the benefit Of their favored youth. Long
after the fall OF the Moorish Kingdoms
the Jews still dourished in Spain, until
the increasing strength of the Cloths
brought with it increase of persecution.
Gradually the Jews were deprived Of
their privileges, or forced to an
outward compliance with the Cath
olic faith under the title OF
N,Ievos Ohrisfians At length the rise
Of ofFerdinane and Isabella, and the intro
duction OF the fatal Inquisition, sealed
their fate. This moral Upas tree first
unfolded its leaves at Seville, and three
of the fairest names in Spain, the Duke
Of Medina Sidonia, the Marques of Cadiz,
and the Count of ARGOS, were its first
xictipOa- The introduction of the
Inouisition into ~Axagon was resisted
with all the energy of despair; but
aIasl evil triumphed over good and its
fell talons were again Redeemed with the
blood of the children of the Sun. Fer
dinand. in q spirit of madness, the evil
effects Of which are felt in Spain to this
day. determined that its delicious alr
should no longer be breathed by any who
did not profess Catholicism. Baptism
or exile were the alternatives. More
that e00, 900 of the most industrious, the
most intelligent, and most enlightened of
Spanish subjects, clinging to
the faith Of their fathers, re-
Aligned the delightful land where
in they had resided for centuries,
the beautiful cities they had raised, the
universities from which Christendom
drew for ages its most precious lore, the
tornbs OF their ancestors and the temples
where they had worshiped the God fol-
whom they made this sacrifice. They
had but four months to prepare fol
eternal exile, after residence of as many
centuries, during which brief period
forced sales and glutted markets vir
tuAlly oon6scated their property. 1t is
calamity which the scattered people still
ranks with the desolation Of Nebuchad
nszzar and of Titus. Who, after this
should say that the Jews are by nature
A soRD1D PEOPLE.
But the Spanish Goth, then 30 cruel and
so naughty, where is he? A despised
suppliant to the very race which he ban
ished for some miserable portion OF thai
treasure which their habits of industry
have again accumulated. Where is that
tribunal which summoned Medins
Sidonia and Cadiz to its dark inquisi
tionf Where is Spain? Its fall? Its
unparalleled and irremidiable fall il
mainly to be attributed to the expulsion
Of that large portion Of its subjects,
the most industrious and intelligent,
who traced their origin to the Mosaic
and Mohammedan Arabs" Many, if not
the greater portion OF these hapless ex
lies, sought and found safe asylum in
free Saxon England, where, as in all
ether parts Of Europe, their progress,
though silent and slow, was onward ever
and upward. Leaping now the gulf OF
time until we arrive at the early part of
the 10Th century, we find their then con-
dition thus portrayed in the glowing
OrientAlism Of Disraeli: "You never
observe great intellectual movement in
Europe in which the Jews do not largely
participate. The first Jesuits were Jews;
that mysterious Russian diplomacy
which 50 alarms Western Europe is or
ganized and principally carried on by
jews; that mighty revolution which is at
this moment preparing in Germany, is
entirely developing under the auspices
Of Jews, who almost monopolize the pro-
fsssorial chairs of Germany. Neander
the
FOUNDER OF SPIRITUAL CHRISTIANITY,
And who is Regius Professor of Divinity
in the University of Berlin, is Jew.
BenAry, equally famous in the same
University, is Jew. Wehl the Arabic,
Professor Of Heidelberg, is Jew, the first
Arabic scholar of the day and author OF
The life OF Mahomet. A few years ago
We were applied to by Russia for loan.
resolved to 60 myself to st. Peters
burgh. had an interview on my ar
rival with tho Russian Minister OF
Finance, Count Cancrin. beheld the
son Of q Lithuanian Jew. The loan was
connected with the affairs of Spain.
repaired thither in the person Of the
Spanish Minister, Senior Mendizabel; I
beheld one like myself, the son of q
Nasro Cbristiano, Jew of Arragon.
From Madrid went to Paris to consult
the President OF the French Council; I
beheld the son Of French Jew, hero,
an Imperial Marshal, and very properly
20, for who should be military heroes, If
not those who worship the Lord of Hosts.
And is Soutt Hebrew Yes, and 9TH
ers Of the French Marshals, and the most
famous; Massena for example; his real
name was Manasssh; but TO my anscdote.
The consequence of our consultations
yss, that some northern power should
be spilled to in friendly and mediatiye
capacity. We hxsd on Prussia; and the
President Of the Council made an appli.
cation to The Prussian Minister ,sswho ct
landed few days after our conference.
Count Arnim
ENTERED THE GARNET,
ND / behsid Pruasian Jew. So y6u see
ia governed by very diiIsrent'