The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-15

shut out from old England after butch
cries too horrible TO describe. tortured
maddening frequency beside which the
massacre of st. Bsrthomew's Eve was
but a sad incident; the aGonizing wall OF
helpless mother and babe who furnished
OF tho Crusader. forbidden to establish a
home. aged and infant forced TO flee IN
The night, robbed and plundered without
redress-what a. m mockery to speak of pa
triotism emanating from such as these:
ana Vet In time Of common danger they
fought side by side with their persecutors
and mingled their blood with the blood
IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
II then, the Jew could think OF YORK i,s
ana still call England home If he
could. with the means of the massacred
Jews OF Metz and Mainz and Worms. ana
Spires ringing III his ears, give lAaSker
TO lead the Ketchstag and battalions to
follow Blucher and Won Moltke; II ne
could wipe out the memory of Philip the
Fair and Orleans and give Napoelon his
most successful Marshal and dedicate to
the >ause of liberty the fiery Gambetta,
II the Jew has been so unreyengetui, SO
forsiring, has heart SO full OF yearning
Tor a home. a country in whose govern
ment he might have some share in IN
which his manner of worshipping his
Creator would not disQuallfy him for cltl-
glorious country. where we are An1eri-
cans first and Jews afterwards, where,
thanks to the Sage of Monticello, there is
not mere tolerance. but equality of rights,
fraternity, the honorcd list Of patriots,
civic and military, embraces hundreds
of Jewish names. 1t was like breathing
the free air of Heaven after centuries OF
confinement, the gaberdine forever dis
carded. the Ghetto gone. avowal of some
particular creed no longer the shlbbolcth
of Liberty
try. State and city waxed apace. Under
the Stars and Stripes the Jew, after cen
turies of wandering found at last the
Promised Land. a land flowing with the
milk of human kindness and the honey OF
humanitarian principles.
And then came that fierce internecine
struggle that crucible wherein was nut TO
fiery test the loyalty and devotion of
persion has the love of the Jew for his
immediate soil. the identity Of his inter
ests and passions with those of his neigh
Dor, been more strikinsly shown than
during the War between the States, when,
despite the small numbers of Jews 1t
that time in this land, most Of whon too,
not for the land of their nativity. but for
the gentle mother OF their adoption.
Thousands of Jews who had made their
homes north Of Mason and D:xon's line.
In Federal ranks. while in the armies of
the Confederacy ten thousand Jews
srrank not from hardship and danger in
defense Of nome and what should have
And when the end decreed by fate ha q
come to pass the Jewish soldier llke his
Christian brother. following the example
of the noblest soldier of all the ages. left
Appomattox determined to build up a
new South and not TO desert the old. And
when the tocsin a few years since called
again to arms. and the wondering world
saw how completely Southern patriotism
and Northern patriotism had coalesced
into American patriotism. me Jew was
not behind his neighbor. and the number
of those who enlisted was greater proper
tionallv than that of any other creed
DEVOTION TO THE SOUTH.
1t Is not, then. strange that we should
he deeply impressed with the fact that
This memorial is doubly significant to us
as Southern Jews. Aye we are proud of
sires, true to the hest spirit of our
fajtr. and proud of You as Confederate
soldiers wing with YOUR Christian broth
ers in attcsting undving LOYALTY to the
Lost Cause. unfiirching devotion to your.
mother soil. To You. whose memory we
especially g'orifv to-day. YOU who died
upon the field of battle for your beloved
home. who gave life's dear blood for the
Southland we all love so well. we can
frame no grander eulogy- than that yo,,
did your duty as Jews as well rs Confeie-
rate soldiers. We can. unfortunately
decorate the graves of only the few who
died on batiieficlds near Richmond this
little cutrost of the ten thousand who
marched in the. Serried ranks Of the Con-
federacy. Would that we could bring
laurel wreaths 10 each of them those
who died in battle and those VINO have
since ioined the vast raioritv. TO each
from the Beaconsfieid of the South. Judah
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