The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-11-24

No Per.aeutIon Of &C IeNs.

OF tntm eNl!eS uOm persecution IN Ger
many and Russia. There is nothing in his
torp more remarkable than the long survi
val Of prejudice against the Jews, unless i
lie the fact of the survival aud prosperit!
Of the race, Notwithstanding violent preiu
dice and cruel persecution. Considering
how much mankind owes to the Jews, it il
astonishing that the spirit Of enlightenment
has not crushed the spirit Of prejudice, IL
his political biography Of Lord George Ben
timex, Disraeli devotes chapter to the his
tory Of the Jews. 1t is u splendid defense
Of the despised race, Astounding in striking
passages, in the best style Of the grea
statesman and author. Witness the fol
lowing:
The Saxon and the Slay. and the Gel
have adopted most OF the laws and many
OF the customs OF these Arabian tribes, oil
their literature, and all their religion, They
are therefore indebted to them for mucl
that regulates, much that charms, AM
much that sOlaces existence, The toilinl
multitude rests every seventh day by vir
tue OF Jewish law; they are perpetuallS
reading "for their example" the records o
Jewish history, and singing the odes anC
elegies OF Jewish poets; and they daily
acknowledge on their knees, with rever
ent gratitude, that the only medium o
communication between the Creator anC
themselves is the Jewish race. Yet they
treat that race Us the yilest OF generations
Had it not been for the Jews o
Palestine the good tidings OF our Lord
would have been unknown forever to the
Northern and Western races. The frs
preachers OF the gospel were Jews, anC
none else; the historians Of the gospel wert
Jews, and none else. No one has evel
been permitted to write under the inspira
ton Of the Holy Spirit except Jew
For nearly century no one be
lived in good tidings except Jews, They
nursed the sacred flame OF which they vert
the consecratedand hereditary depositaries
And when the time was ripe to diftuse the
truth among the ethnics, 1t was not Sena
Tor of Rome nor philosopher Of Athens
who was personally appointed by our Lord
for that office, but Jew Of TGnsuS, who
founded the seven churches Of Asia, And
that greater church, great even amid it,
terrible corruptiOns, that has avenged the
victory Of Titus by subjugatng the capital
Of the CGsars, and has changed every one
Of the 0lympian temples into affairs OF the
God ofSinai and Of Calvary, was founded by
another Jew, n Jew OF Galilee This
regularity, however, attends the Jews IN
der the most favorable circumstances; the
otherdPgraded rtCes wear out and disappear
the Jew remains, rs determined, as expert
rs perEevering, as full OF resources and
resoute as ever. Viewed in this light
the degradation OF the Jewish race il
alone striking evidence OF its excel
lence, for none but one OF the great races
could have survived the trials which it has
endured. . Obdurate, malignant
odious and revolving as the lowest Jew mp
pears to us, he Is rarely demoralized. Be-
meath his own roof his heart opens to the
influence Of his beautiful Arabian tradi
tons. All his ceremonies, his customs and
his festivals are still to celebrate the boun'
ties OF Nature and tho favors OF jehovah
The patriarchal feeling fingers about his
hearth. A man, however fGHen, who loves
his home is not wholly lost. The trumpets
OF Sinai still sound in the Hebrews ear,
and Jew Is never seen upon the scaffold
unless 1t be at an dutO.dd:tc. The
suliyrings OF the Jews, however, have
been infinitely more prolonged and va.
riel than those OF the Atheninns. The
Greek, nevertheless, appears exhausted.
The creative genius Of Israel, on the
contrary, never shone so bright, and
when the Russian, the FrenchmAn and the
Anglo.Saxon, amid applauding theatres OF
the choral voices at solemn temples, yield
themselves to the full spell OF Mozart OF
a Mendelssohn, It seems difficult to com.
prehend how these races can reconcile II Ia
their hearts to prosecute Jew. . The
world has by this time discovered that it Il
impossible to destroy the Jews. The
attempt to extirpate them has been made
under the most favorable auspices, and on
the largest scale; the most considerable
means that man could command have been
pertinaciously applied to this object for the
longest period Of recorded time. Egyptian
pharaohs, Assyrian Kings, Roman En-
pcros, Scandinavian Crusaders, Gothic
Princes, and Holy 1nQuisitors have
alike devoted their energies to the
iulfllment OF this common pur.
pose. Expatriation, exile, captivity, con.
liscation, torture on the most ingenious
and massacre on the most extensive scale
a curious system Of degrading customs and
debasing laws, which would have broken
the heart Of any other people has been
tried, and in vain. The Jews, after all this
havoc, are probably more numerous at this
date than they were during the reign o.
Solomon the Wise, are found in all lands
and, unfortunately, prospecting in most
All which proves that II is in vain for man
to attempt TO battle the memorable law o
Nature, which has deCreed that q superior
race shall never be destroyed or absorbed
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