the Editor of the Nonta-Curva Dany News.
Sur,—Sinee the subject of this letter, as the hending clearly shows, is of no particular local' interest, it depends entirely upon your discretion whether or not you think it worth while to allow it a #: aco in your journal. But my object in writing it to you is only to give vent, through your columns, to the thoughts and s of many a tight-minded man on the subject.
T shall begin the subject by asking a very simple question. Why la the Jew the object of cruel and bitter persecutions i countries? I cannot assign any sxtistactory reason of this phenomenon, nor can any one vise. As subjects the Jews are as loyal as any sovereign can wish them to be. Their religion does no! with that of any other nation amor they may be living. Whatever their vocal tion, profession, or calling, they are upright a'degroo. If they are accused of being usnrera in some country, the country that accuses them thus ought to be blamed for that fact, because its unjust and partial laws have made them so. The disabili under which the Jew is inpouring in Ru sia are enough to exasperate a saint. If he is not allowed to do anything that the law restrains, ho must do something which it does not restrain. And when he earns his living as a usurer, although very much against his will, the world hates'him for that But the hating world seems to foret that its laws have made him so. If the law imposed no restraints on him but allowed him to enjoy all the privileges that the nation amongst which he lived enjoyed, he would not have had recourse to the usurer's trade. To five thousand Jewish usurers in Russia there is scarcely one in the whole of the British empire. And what is the reason? It ably this; that in the former country the Jew is not allowed to do or become what he likes, whereas in the latter he is a free and untrammelled ager The different persecutions of the Jews that have recently taken place in Russia are
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