The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-06-26
Criticism Of His Book Brings
Forth Interesting Reply.
JEWISH RACE is LAUDED
With Great Reverence Barlow Man
Recalls Heroic DECIDE Of Valor
In Defense Of Home ana coun.
try and Wonderful sta.
billy Of Hebrews.

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one fault that did not harmonic with !
her Hebrew feelings, for she is a Jew
ess. ID two places she found a sport |
I've anecdote that reflected upon some |
of her people, but they were too good |
to be suppressed, and would have been |
told on Gentiles as well. Ny respect
for the Jews has been too often en-
pressed in my letters to be question.
cd. II is not mere respect, but It ia
wonder and admiration rejoice with
them that the ages of persecution have
passed, and that they can now worship
God according to their conscience and
the faith of their fathers. Their ances
tors appeared at the very dawn OF crea
ton. They have been broken up and
scattered time and again, but have pre-
served their sacred literature and Gus
toms and religion and have outlived
every nation that oppressed them.
They have had no king nor ruler nor
political head, and have been scattered
among all climes and peoples, but have
never lost their nationality nor mixed
their blood with any other people
They have for centuries struggled
against the Egyptians, Syrians and Ro
mans and survived them all. They
were in later centuries prescribed by
the Catholics Of Spain, the Protestants
of Norway, while their prosecutors
sang the songs Of the Psalmists and
! taught the wisdom of their prophets.
We rejoice that their dellyerance from
| persecution came along with that Of
our own when We proclaimed religious
liberty and civil equality to all who
made America their home. l have long
admired that people, who have ex.
celled in domestic virtue, in obedience
to law, whose children honor and oby
their parents Rarely among them are
found convicts or criminals or drunk.
ards or suicides, or divorced men or
women. Their names seldom appear
on the dockets of the courts. And yet
they are patriots when patriots ars
wanted. Kosciusko had no Drawer
troops than the Polish Jews who fol
lowed his banner, and If had to name
the most faithful soldier ever saw In
our civil war, | would name Jonas of
our town Of Rome, a Jew who never
shirked a duty or avoided a battle or
loitered on march. We have not for
gotten how he came to time after R
long days march rom the Chicahom-
iney to Rapidan, and when the colonel
said, "Mr. Jonas, where Is your com.
pany." the tired soldier came to a sa.
Lutte and said, 81 ish der komp'ny."
That Jonas was an uncle to Israel 10.
mas, who all Atlanta knows, and who
is now prominent in New York COM
mercial circles.
With great reverence do recall our
own Judah P. Benjamin, our secretary
of war and on whom Mr.. Davis leaned
for counsel more than upon any mem
Der Of his cabinet. He was a very great
man, or he could not have gone TO
England and worked his way, unlided,
to the very top Of the English bar, and
within eight years be appointed
, queens counsel over the most learned
members Of the profession have not
forgotten the perfect loneliness Of the
Jewess Rebecca in SCOTS history Of
Ivanhoe. You may find broken vows
and separations and Opponents n
fact and in dction, but not among the
Jews. They are In every town and
city and are more Of an example THAI
a menace to our people and our instl
tutions. Their names are found re-
spending to every charity, and l no
, ticed that the university fund was
materially aided by their liberality
and l could not help wondering how
: much our Christian people would have
0 given to aid some great Jewish schoo
) or charity
r would like to write more abou
these Hebrews, for. as st. Paul salt
i to the Romans, with them was com
, mitted the oracles of God" But l an
= not well today, and must defer to ;
= more propitious season.
t In my last letter | made a mistake
r that must be corrected. I said tina
t there were but ten months until Julius
Caesar and Augustus Caesar put II
two more and named them July am
August. Somehow / have had tha
impression all my mature life, and
> strange to say, I was corrected a fey
days ago by my good friend Gassett,
mulatto merchant of our town, who j
: well educated and a student Of anoien
history He wrote me a respectful LEI
ter and said that Numa, a Roman en-