Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-27
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The Yankee and the jew.

The Yankee and the jew.
The recent incident Of prejudice
against the Jewish race occurring in
New York city affords a suitable oo-
casion for contrasting the two races.
1t is a contrast we have never seen in
print, but which occurred to us in onr
reading the book Of books. We will
present the contrast and leave it to
any unprejudced mind if young Mr..
Seligman is not honored in his eXclu
sion from the Union League Club, con-
sidering the race ancestry OF the two
parties.
About 100 hundred years a ,er the
Jews became a natior, most scanda-
lous sin was committed in the town of
Gibeah, State of Benjamin, of which
the general Judgment of Israel was thus
expressed: There was no such deed
done nor seen from the day that the
children Of Israel came up and out of
the land of Egypt until this day. They
felt it must be purged away or the Di-
vine wrath would come upon the en-
tire nation.
The State of Benjamin got mad and
determined to stand by Gibeah in its
most crying wickedness and came up
for battle. How did these Jews, 14G0
years before Christ and more than 5000
years before the yankee civilization
blessed this world, make war on one
Of its States, to maintain the Jewish
union?
They first inquired of God, were di-
rected, went and were defeated. Now
they 90 again before the Lord, and
,cecD, which they did not do at first
and this time they inquire they shall
90 up against 1.-The children of Benja-
min, nay brother." 1t was merely Ben
iamin" the first time. But their heart
had been rendered by conflict and re-
pulse aud it is now my brothers"
Again they are defeated and again re-
tun before the Lord, and reep and
fast and offer sacrifices unto the Lord,
both burnt oile cings and peace offerings.
None can successfully wage the war
of Jehovah's peace against its distur-
bers who do not have that peace them
selves fresh and sweet in their hearts.
Once more they ask "Shall | yet again
90 out to battle against the children Of
Benjamin my brother or shall cease"
Having been thoroughly humbled
and sifted out so that the war is the
Lords and not theirs, and carried on
as sad and heavy duty in which no
national glory could be involved, once
more they went and now they succeed
and reduce Benjamin. When it was
over so far from it ever entering the
Jewish mind that there was any occa-
sion of boasting or glorying in that
war, the whole people went up to the
house of God and wept for Benjamin
whom they remembered and loved as
one of the tribes which suffered in
Egypt and came out and fought side by
side for their home in Canaan. One
hundred years could not make them
forget Benjamin in the past.
But less than this time sufficed for
the yankee doodle civilization of the
North to forget colonial and revolution
ary bonds and memories and to send
troops dancing along in eagerness to
invade the South. Did Mr.. Lincoln
and Seward call on the Lord or ask
the churches to do so concerning the
war? There was no such inquiry before
the war nor thanksgiving offered at its
close. At the close of the Revolution
Congress went in body to church and
solemnly returned thanks to Almighty
God for the success. The yankee Con-
gress did nothing Of the kind. Mr..
Lincoln made no such suggestion. Per-
haps they felt embarrassed in thinking
of thanking Almighty God for helping
100000 soldiers to overcome 100000.
1t was more creditable TO them to pro-
ceed as if He did not help them at all
and thus leave more margin for boast.
| ing.
1t was reserved for our yankee civil-
zation to find room in a civil strife,
family war Of the most shameful kind,
for national glorification Of the success
ful part of the family and overriding of
the unsuccessful.
So utterly have those old colonial
memories been forgotten in the yankee
hearts in the insatiate greed of that
heart for power and plunder at the ex-
pensc of every fine and noble feeling,
that to this day, 80 years nearly after
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grandest of all those colonies in her
work for liberty, is not considered
worthy place in the cabinet of the
gold bug administration of this yankee
lied government. And she is honored
in such mission if she only knew it,,
Just as Mr.. Seligman is in his treat
ment.
Men who can lift hand to distress
socially one of that nation which has
been maltreaated and plundered and
made outcasts and strangers for nearly
1000 years by the robber nations of Eu-
rope, have got the heart of a devil
in them and will find a devils
home in due time. A southern man
would be doubly damned who did not
sympathize with this people.
If the little finger of Jesus, the son
OF Jewess, was not heavier in kind
ness and true heartedness than the
whole weight of thousand of such
yankees as those referred to, the South
would have had cold, cold time of it
since the war