GENERAL BUTLER ON THE JEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1879, Page 4

GENERAL BUTLER ON THE JEWS.

[Trcm the "Jewish World,' January 31, 1879] On Thursday, the 9th instant,' the Boston Hebrew Fair was visited by General Butler, who, after Inspecting the various objects of attraction, delivered ao address. Gen. Butler, who waa received with prolonged cheerinj, sat. l : I am bound to believe (hat the reason why X have been so grestgd by yoo \s because you have found in my public career that it has ever been for lha good of ail people without distinction of race or condition of life. (Applause). No devout, sincere Christian can doubt for a moment the wonderful character of the Hebrew race, and in all the remarkable career of the Jewish uation vvo *ea that from th«t cation, God's chosen people, came the emanation of His plan of salvation to mankind, nud from that notion has come the religion which has covered the earth with civilisation. (Applause.) God's people have remained together ia a most fetnarkable manner not as a nation~for they, for a thousand years, have not existed aa a oatteri--but there baß been a solidarity of a people in the economy of the Jewish race that haa kept them to themselves; although scattered all over the worid, amid the greateftt aori most terrible persecutions fof many years, almost agea, that would have destroyed any other nation. The Hebrew nation is a nation distinguished for three characteristics— the integrity, the thrift, and the industry of the men, and the purity, chastity, and domestic virtues of the women* (Applause.) I need pay no compliment where cone is deeded!,' I speak from knowledge upon the subject. For forty years,! have been conversant with the criminal courts of Maesachussets and many other States, and I have never yet ha<i a Hebrew client as a criminal. But you may siy that was because the Hebrews did not choose yoo for their lawyer ; but that is not the true answer, for I never yet saw a veritable Israelite in the prisoner's box for crime in my life. Another fact is that the Jewish raoe, having remained intact for so j many years, must come from some preordination of the Almighty, that they should keep themselves to themselves to return again and possess the promised land after centuries, of wandering awoy from it ; and that time, which h*s been the dream of the Hebrew philosopher, the topic and prophecy of the Hebrew prophet, the hope of the Hebrew statesman; seems about to be fulfilled • for under the lead of the mac who to-day is the most powerful on earth— a single man standing out the central figure of all Europe — a man whose fame has pervaded even the schoolboy's mind, so that it is said that whep a question was pot to one of them, " How is the map of rEprope divided ?* l he replied "By Beaconsfifild;" (Laughter.) Dader the lead of hirt,iih« greatest. nian now living, and of r yo.urfr^aqe f aProtectorate over Jerusalem with him nlLtbtt, heattoX if; Would it not seem that the dream, the thought, the j hope of the Hebrert statesman, poet, fJhilosoper, tnd prophet, are abbot to be realised ? 'And, supremely over ell,— over nobles, and ' kings, and emperors,-— stand (be family whose leave is required by kingg^and emperora before they can go tawar, or be(oitt,ihejr can make. -,p.<ace, Their awdnt mtfat ba-asked roHbe^ terms proposed. No great route for commerce ! between Ekwpe/-aQ<J Asia^cs.^ be | opened without the consent of that ;i family, jvbbiave amassed money, not, for the sake of money alooe — for ihelr accumulations are past all dreams of avarices-hut they are the accumula- ! tions of power which has made tbem greater (haa ali. tfeed I call tfae name *f the family of toe Rothschilds to show the most powerful family on earth belonging to the race of people I see before me ? (Applause.) What, theo, is the destiny for you and yours, wherever you may roam ? For what you are reserved belongs to the future. It is in the womb of time, and can be known only to your great Law-giver, He who, in His providence,' 1 has preserved your people for some wise purpose, uoknown to mankind, and only to be, gueaied /fom, -the great results M^V^ave; "already come from His chosen/ people.; ; tfbsse tbbj^hjs, crowd opoo me, and I have to give, them "utterance. They ffla^ei! present 'fbeWrfves Wyoor minds, and I Cannot see bow any mad of "your raci dan feel otherwise thin that! he- is equal of the oefWeaP and 'pffn&tr of : the 1 eWtbj-i- --; (applawwj)-i*nd Ber6, in' America; you bave that equality withall tneotber men, aad the opportunity of making yourselves what you are— a leading pbwer in the State and country— for the power of your people is felt and known here sift^ei-higuest dffices in -the United States Senate arid- House of Representatives have been filled by representatives pf youn people, few in comparison with the others though you may he; and vrheb I remember, and yon remember, what may be in store for you, dpi Dot do well to call these matters of the past to your minds, so that every one of these young men here may feel that he has * pisca to fill ia the wprld— which requires all the industry, ail the intelligence, and all the good conduct possible to make himself the equal of those of his people who have gone before him. And I have not failed if I have inspired that proper and high ambition that should make any one of your children look upon the great efforts of hii people and endeavor to follow^hefrgooa Sample, whether in Wpe charity ofa Wdriieflore, in. the

statesmanship of a BeaconefielJ, or in the acquired wealth and power of, the Rothschilds, their excellence, so great and so illustrious, that while ench may' hope in tome degree to equal, none can hope to excef. (Applause.) »■ " *— «