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WHE JEWS.It is stated with much assurance in the Gazette of Spires, that the Subiime Porte has recently made proposals to tbe House of Rothschild for tbe loan of a conMderable sum of money, and has offered as a security for payment, the entire couotry of Palestine. It is stated also, that in consequence of thi« proposal a confidential agent had been despatched by that House to Constantinople, 4* to exnroioe into the validity ofthe pledge offered by the Turkish Cabinet ”The Editor of tbe National Advocate ob serves in relation to this report, that he at first supposed it was intended as a satire on . the prevailing custom of ratting loans for different nations; but on a nearer i?iew of the subject, tbe proposition might be sop posed probable. The Advocate proceeds with some interesting remarks on the sub jject, tending to show, th; t if such a propo , 6ition bad been made, it could not be accepted with any prospect, on the part of the Rothschild*, (who are Jews.) of the ira mediate restoration of their countrymen to , Palestine, as it was probably not *n the pow er even of the Turkish government to guarantee to the Jews the quiet possession i of the country against the prejudices and | interests of the Egyptians, the Wechabite*. [the wandering \rabs, and the Tartar hordes.1 I; js also argued that the discrepancy o.; educa'ion, habit*, view*, and manner*, ex luting between the Jew* nt different coon I tries unfit* them to amalgam*!*- and become » united under one government They mu-t tp prepared for the* by the same discipline which their father*, who went out of Egvpt, were subjected to under Moses, for forty year* in the wilderness, to prepare them for the promised land i% Our country,11 con tmu*9 1he Advocate, u m»nt be an asylum to (he ancient people of G* I H**re they must reside; here, in calm retirement, study law*, government®, sciences ; becomefamiliarly known to their brethren of other religious denominations; cultivate the n*efnl arts ; acquire a knowledge of legislation, and become liberal and tree So that, ap predating tbe blesings of just and salutarylaws, they may be prepared to possess per manently their ancient land, and govern righteously.15
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Mount Zion Missionary
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Mon, Dec 20, 1824
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