The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-10-01
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Persecution of the Jews.

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city OF Jerusalem after a pro-
tracted siege. During this siege 1856,
AGO Jews persisted. The entire city
with its magnificent temple was RACED
to the ground, and nearly 100, 900 OF
the surviving Jewslwere carried into
into various parts OF the en-
pire.
Hundreds OF thousands OF Jews con-
tinued to live in the many towns, viii
lagos and hamlets OF Judea. but they
were hated and vigorously ruled peo-
pie. They made severul attempts TO
throw of the Roman yoke. Their last
effort III this direction was made under
tho leadership of Simon Bar. Cochba.
In A. D., 1870 he organized an army, and
succeeded In capturing Jerusalem and
many villages and towns in Judea.
Hadrian. who reigned from A. d. III
1888, had rebuilt Jerusalem, and had
also forbidden the Jews to enter the
city. 1t contained a temple erected
for the worship OF Jupiter the chief
est of the Roman gods. Hadrian dis
carded the name Jerusalem and called
his now city Ella Capitolina. When
Hadrian discovered that Simon was re-
conquering Judea he sent q largo arm
ed force to that country. The war COLI
tinued three or four years. In all,
200. 600 Jews were butchered. Jerusa-
lem was re.tnken and utterly destroy
ed. All the towns, villages and ham
and all the surviving Jews were driven
out OF Judea. and experienced Incredi.
bio hardships. From that period up
to the present hour their history has
largely been one OF persecution and
hardship.
Hadrian was succeeded by Antoninue
Plus, who reiRned from A. ID. 13S-l6l.
During his reign the Jews ilourished.
And they continued to flourish until
Christianity was established as the re-
ligion of the empire by Constantine l.
who reigned from A. ID. 323-337. His
Christianity was of the half-and-half
kind. In other words, 1t was mix
ture OF heathenlsm and Christianity.
And this kind of Christianity spread
through the empire and still exists.
The Jews wondered what their his.
tory would he with Christianity as the
established religion Of the empire.
Would the followers Of Jesus. who had
experienced awful prosecutions at the
hands Of Pagan Rome, have compas
sion upon them and tolerate themi
Could they forget that 100000 mar
tyrs of the Christian faith were put to
death by order OF Pagan Roman EN-
perors, simply because they would not
revile Christ and become heathens?
The Jews soon discovered that the
Roman empire ChristianiZed was far
from being paradise. Those who
had been oppressed aud murdered be-
came their oppressors and murderers.
Volumes OF history have been filled
with the records of hardships that
they have experienced at the hands OF
professed followers OF Jesus of Man
feth. In this article. only r few para
graphs can be given from the yolumi-
nous records Of persecution; and
these paragraphs will make evident
the fact that the descendants of the
1900, 600 martyrs We're the persons who
nartyred millions of Jews because
they were unwilling to accept the re-
ligion of thieves and murderers.
When Constantine !. got religion. y
such as 1t was, he exhibited the spirit
that was in him by issuing public
document, in which he termed the
Jews, That most hateful of all peo-
pie" From his day and onward, Tim
perinl edicts and ecclesiastical DEGREES
We'd with each other in the rigor of
their Intolerance toward this unhappy
people,"
In the sixth and seventh centuries
the Franks and yisigoths prosecuted
them in shocking manner. They had
prosperity and rest during the eighth
and until the later part of the ninth
century, when carnival OF persccu-
tom was inaugurated, and 1t continu-
ed almost uninterruptedly for 500
years.
When In financial strait, Philip Au-
gustus, who reigEed in France from
A. u. llS0l223. enjoyed the counsel OF
st. Bernard. Both civil and eeclesiasti-
carbohydrates replenlshed their empty
golfers by mortgaging their estates to
wealthy Jews. The Jews received
solemn pledges that In due time these
mortgages would DO properly can.
celled. When the due time arrived,
the Jews We're stripped of the pledges
they held, the mortgages were conils-
Gated, and the Jews were tanished
from France for twenty years. The
Jews must have regarded these Chris
tim civil and ecclesiastical dlgnitaries"
as band OF thieves and robbers. And
that is exactly what they were.
Louis TX. who vi 0 king OF France
from A. ID. l22G- l2IO, seemed to have
more OF the prevailing religion of his
hhS NllNh itlb FREDERICKSBURG lit
was immensely interested in the saliva
ton OF his soul The larger sum of
the money paid over to the eeclesias-
tics the better it would he for his soul.
His subjects were owing the Jews a
large amount of money; and for the
benefit of his SOUP he cancelled, by
an act, third part OF the claims Of
the Jews. 1t is not supposable that
the Jews ever prayed for the repose
of that kings soul.
In the next century many OF the
church in France got more religion. !"
They were lad enough before, but
they became worse afterward. They
went into the mobbing business on II
large scale. As usual the Jews were
the "most hateful of all people;" and
hence the Jews were tho helpless vic
Tins of the ''rising Of lie shepherds"
Armed with stones, clubs, knives.
swords and torches, these shepherds
poured out their Indignation and
wrath upon the Jews, and robbed
them of their money, jewels. clothing,
goods, homes and lands,
and murdered thousands upon thou
sands of men, women and children.
The tribulution and anguish of the
Jews did not create a spark of pity in
the hearts of the intolerant bigots
who robbed and murdered them. The
Jews in entire provinces were destroy
ed by fro. At Chinon leo men and
women were burned together.
About the middle OF the fourteenth
century the BLACK Death plague al
most depopulated Europe. Of course
the Jews had to be blamed for the
The members of the Holy
Church concluded that the Jews pol
soned the wells and pastures and in
dulged in incantations. and altogether
produced the Black Death. To be sure
the Jews drank from the poisoned