The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-18

land discovered has been trodden by the
1sraelite. In Europe he Is monument
more enduring than any raised to COM
memorate the deeds Of the greatest Cap
( taIns or the heroes Of chivalry and ro-
nance. In Egypt he has stood at the
/ foot of the Pyramids, and it would be
/ hard TO say whether, with all his knowl-
! edge and craft. he was not able IN his
day to decipher the strange lettering
and the hieroglyphics that have puzzled
the generations since. In Arabia his
swift feet bore him into the market
places of the towns and cities, and his
genius easily acquired for him place and
distinction among the merchants and
Princes of this land Of spices and hidden
treasure. History tells of his presence
| in the Land of the Rising Sun, and
while bartering his goods 10 advantage
and making exchanges Of gold and
precious stuffs he learned Chinese and
knew the doctrines Of Confucius as
well as the secrets of his own Talmud
Dwelling in Syria, he drove sharp
trade with those who, To live IN
favor with him for short time, lent
him all he asked, and in return were
repaid by his skill In the art of healing
and his knowledge of hidden science.
The Jews came to England as early as
the Saxon times. Many came with
William the Conquerer; nor were they
less famous at this period than they are
to-day, even then being regarded as
most learned and as experts in whatever
they undertook In the First and
Second centuries they were the objects
of fearful prosecutions SSeverus, the
Roman Emperor, in the Third century,
sought to Danish them beyond the limits
of the Empire. A century later, Con-
stantine, although but recently con
verted to Christianity, inveighed against
them with untold cruelty, and, issuing
an edict that the ears Of all the Jews
within his realm should be cut off, ex-
PEELED them from his kingdom, and with /
this terrible mark of ignominy to dis |
tinguish them, sent them adrift among /
the nations of the earth. Nowhere /
was the poor jew spared, and broad as
was the canopy Of heaven, nowhere /
under its protecting shelter could he
find peace Christians, Mohammedans I
and heathens agreed to disagree among /
themselves, but united with one accord |
to prosecute the common foe, as they I
called him, the intruding jew.
BUoYANcY OF THE RACE
There is no fact recorded in the histo-
ry of the world at once 50 astonishing and
so perplexing as the vitality ofthe jew
ish race Prescribed, banished driven
into exile, the Jews return again and
again. Their stubbornness is only sur
passed by the efforts devised by the cruel
tv Of men to rid the world of what En-
perors and Kings and Churchmen have
termed in one voice the enigma of eX-
stence. Crushed into the bowels Ofthe
earth, like the hated Christians they
tbhorred, they came out even as did
he Christians, with new vigor and fresh
to renew their traffic in every
town and city of the Roman Empire.
In every place and under all situations
hey were always the same, retaining
heir own religion, holding fast to the
customs, the manners and recollections
If their ancestry. With an unconquera-
Die buoyancy of spirit, with indomitable
industry, with mistaken fortitude, they
yeathered every storm, and when I'M
Derial rage had spent itself, when the
cunning of the Inquisition had exhaust
ii every device, the Jewish people +
seemed as unmoved, as full Of resolu-
ion and as defiant as when they smut
up in the walls Of Jerusalem,
bidding tne armed legions come on,
needless of the consequences. Surviv
ng the destruction Of the besieged city,
t seemed they could outlive all manner I
If torture every human agency invent
d for their destruction. And their act
lal victory over the wicked energies of
men proves, besides the extraordinary
'itality of the nation, that a more than
human power is exerted, for some rea-
on or other, in prolonging a nationality
md an existence that otherwise would
rave persisted from the annals Of the {
world.