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THE. DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and TIIE LEGAL CHRONICLE

LINCOLN IMMORTAL FOE OF OPPRESSION

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How Abraham Lincoln Was Supported by the Jewish
People inHis Struggle To Preserve the Union,
Thereby Making History.

LIVING UP TO A GREAT NAME

By EMANUEL HERTZ.

Never before has the interest in doom of the Republic, the failure of

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any one man been as great as it is flee go, ernment?

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in Lincoln, today. Study and rt.. Many Jew. Achieve High Rank. ir ,, ]
starch, investigation and collection
After
ter the
toe SilOt on Fort Sumpter, ti?:;
of data, comparisons of newly dis- the Jewish people in the North 't..!'.
covered letters and documents, with wen, unanimous in their response. iKi.

recorded State papers, newly pub- ,

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shade of opinion about that great
f to • t •e—called by Divine Providence

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then as there are now,

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literally flew to the banners a..K.
fished biographies and released au- of the Union and a greater propor- -hi,
are all scanned and lion of them responded than those ' .h,-.
sifted in order to gather every of any other creed. Their leaders, ,r..,

to guide the Republic through the
tragic maze Of civil war. Many a

myth about Lincoln has Leto ex-
plotted, many a belief shaken, many
a theory upset, und many a quo , .

Goat has now been definitely an-

swered in view of this new light

which is lacing constantly shed upon
one phase or another of this many-
sided character. Until recently, the

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touch with Lincoln. They came at ;,,i•;•
his bidding. Many of them reached at;,

high rank in the any and in the

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navy and the spiritual leaders kept .,.
up a vont inuous bombardment front ':.

their pulpits in order that Lincoln cot
might have the support he needed i• ,h;o

to carry on. There were none pear- '
tically who did not support the 4.:
Union and the annointed leader, iV.i

relat ] "" s "f the War President ' with their property HMI with their :4:,
Loth before and after he assumed
, t, lives. Scarcely has any credit lucen tit
the Presidency, with his Jews ven
to the great host which -!.*
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friends and supporters, had never marched to the very valley of the t•
been t it u c h e d upon. It almost . shadow of death that the Republic ai.x.
seemed front this curious omission might live. And yet they were part •.,„

as if the first Jewish family came
to these shores after Lincoln had
passed trots the stage. And yet an

of that great adventure. With the
records, the task of
salvaging tha t untold tale becomes
and
entire history can be written of mare
nit re difficult. With the
Washington and the sews--a task rumbling of, t he pages of the daily
most timely in view of the impend- papers where some t.f those names

When The Lincoln National Life was estab-
lished, its founders sought "a name so proud
that men and officers would always feel inspired
by it; so simple and strong . that the whole world
would love it" . . . and no greater name could
be found than Lincoln's.

Lincoln's principles live after him. As he was
profoundly dedicated to the service of mankind,
so The Lincoln National Life is dedicated to
serving the public with every sound and desir-
able form of life insurance.

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ing bi-centenary Washington eel, appear these essential records in a
bration. And as the Jewish people t , ,
s incite will completely dis.
multiplied in great numbers during appear.

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the last century and appeared in '
late Simon Wolf of Wash- c .i.
every turf of the Union, augmented
in gton, who lived through that pe-
an „ayes of immi gration
lay tii.e
what
rind, H MI the late Adolphus Solos!
must
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grim , , mans, a fretauent caller tan Lincoln, ' atti",.'::),i'.:.'4':::::.:,'i.:,',:i'
part in the
th they
Face play ed their
have preserved a few of the details
itational dramas of tai it to ISO --
of the relations of the Jews with. the roil solution, his the real the-
two even accompanied John Brown
• the War President and their con- • ore of life and of government? It
in his t•ampaign in Kansas.
t t•ibut ions to the arm y and navy.
Jews Arrayed Against Slavery.
Hut the compilation of the entire fought
was because
he hated
wrong,
he
the oppressor;
he,
the man
of individual
most neg.
When We pursue
list, with the history
a the ages, lived the maxim of the
but
let•ted topic, we find that with
t
h
y
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ages:
neighbor as th y .
people in . achievement, has . never been at-
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few exceptions th
e ,curia
tempted, the entire episode ha ' self,
Cod with all thy heart
d th
lf any
the North were all arrayed in the
' all thy soul." How ran a cause
never been told. And yet, they not
battle against Slayer'? ' . One minis- only played their part—as shown
fail with such a platform? Would
ter alone stood for slavery and at-
in the sufferings of the great Civil you comprehend why this humble
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it by
, , it
tempted to j usul
War—they lust life, properly, their man of the frontier laboriously and
We find, to mention but two—Rabbi families were broken up, visited by with all humility fought like n'
GtJtheil in his two addresses in
Manchester, and Rabbi Einhoim in fire and destruction of war, and yet giant against odds which had van-
lialtimot•e — two gleat leaders in ' their woes are never referred to by quished every political leader for
of the historians of the period. 'Jo years—because he comprehended
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fi. iim any
their day, denouncing . slavery
Now and then an unfair order such and ferreted out oppression in
the pulpit. Einhorn, alone, limo.
as the one issued by General Grant whatever disguise it appeared in
than counteracted Raphael's weak
011 December 17, 1562, in the De- the land. Slandered, reviled, con-
plea for slavery—and that in a lartinent of Tennessee and known
spirol against, atssasinated — his
Southern sympathizing city at the
as General Order No 12, is brought ft-es were many; but conquer him
risk of his life. His reply to Ralph.
and his world platform, they could
eel is a classic of scholarship and to the surface and we see how
prt.nuttly Lincoln (11111e to the res. not; and destroy his doctrine of
invertive to this very day.
rue, and acted as he ever did when freedom none can; for he was one
When the records are further ex-
st amping out wrong and injustice of God's elect, nay, the annointed
unlined and delved into, we find the and annulled the order even before leader—to make his country free.
Jewish people t•ept•usented in the
he had consulted Grant. "If Grunt
Death Mourned by Jews.
army and the navy, in both Houses
And when that fatal shot which
was wrong"-
, ' that order he
of Congress--and with but even
one not-
mad
Grant, one of his few fighting was heard around the world, sent
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exception—Judah p
ablr
-always on the side of Union and generals,the last hope of the Union him to (Rue his Maker, his work on

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Freedom, champions of Lincoln and side, was
could not tolerate an order which
his cause. We find Abraham Jonas
began: "The .tear as a class . .
in Illinois, a chairman of his Conn- are hereby expelled," etc. And it

earth complete, the epic nut only of
America, but of the Ages enacted,

amid the universal chorus of utter-
ances, of despair on earth, of wail-

ty t ommittee, Plodding and
was h!.' it Jew ish niesst•nger, the lag and tears—none exceeded the
sing for Lincoln's nomination. And first to bring it to his attention, .1t.wish people in rendering homage
when Horace Greeley comes along ' That the order was promptly an- and tine appreciation of his great
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on a pre-Convention news gather`
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immortal achieveents.
i , the nulled. And when other lead ers life and
,,,m,,,,litiott, ,f o na s brings t
ote,t. he simply replied The Rabbis in the synagogues, in
protest,
"Me
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I
ing ference the leading political fig ,
Con
moment the unjust under the religious schools mourning and
and his that the mom
ores of the State, and he
came to his attention, it was re- weeping children--William of Or-
partner Asbury, bring the t•antli- yoked. Ile needed no argument, he ange was the last one whose death
dacy of Lincoln to Greeley's often-
tion who is then advocating the wanted no great delegation to eon- brought forth tears from children's
op- eyes—in their lodges and in their
.
since hies. He was against all
nomination of Bates. They go along
prt •ssi on. no matter what form it plaices of gathering, American Jews
to Chicago and help to bring about assuno al. And he seemed to con- gave vent to sad plaudits, to clo-
the nomination o fLinotIn. They once those about hint. those who tatient appreciations, as did the
help in his campaign, they watch
n ,.intact with hint, that tyr- s pokesmen 14 other creeds, and thus
hint h•ave on his journey to t he army and oppression must b e ban- swelled the chorus of the universe!
Capital and see him inaugurated ] ,roari
and ask the blessings of Gcd on his' ashed from the land, if our Repub. funeral] dirge, of psalm and ora-
lie was to t ndure. The words of the t ion. Those, ilal, were on the point
veto undertaking. They answer immortal declaration were burnt of being lost, lost through the tooth
his call for men and munitions to into his -cry fibre—and he could of time, the disintegration and fall-
fight the battles of the Republic.
endure that a fellow human ing apart of the printed word.
to slave-holding not
s
B eing opposed
be discriminated
Hut ; it came to int. as a task
a h o u
throughout the millenia, they .gist
against or should sutler by reason which could not longer be delay111,
port this modern Moses in his great
and I gathered almost all those
of creed or color.
assault upon the alit re-power then
Would you know the real reason, splendid attributes of the leaders

intrenched in every department of
the Federal government. Shall this why he prevailed—why, standing of the synagogues in a volume,
Goliath of slavery prevail? Shall alone for ever so long—he came which will preserve for all time
houg,ht, wh at feat,s felt
nced no t o nly
int o his own and convithat
wi tnes s the p er-
n
te
h Illth t•etury
was t in that m omentou pe -
and
his WII , whatsPoken
majority,
but
all,
the
;
a
and with it
p etuati on of slavery

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lit d by the Jewish people, 1.y their

preachers, their muds and their
teachers, when an entire nation
paid its last homage to their de-

parted chief.
May I not ask, as a matter cf
simple justice. that the remnants
in whatever form, such as still ex-

ist. of the part the Jewish people

played in helping Abraham I, illeoln
in his great battle for the right as
evidenced by military commissions,

It.nger belong to the individual;
they belong to the whole world, in
rder to demonstrate that in Boil.

as on every other momentous occa-
sion when human rights are at
stake, when the strong oppresses
the weak, when wrong is about to

triumph aver right, the Jew is ever

ready to line up with Moses against
Pharaoh, with William of Orange

against Alva, with Mazzini and
Kossuth against the Hapsburg ty-
by letters from Lincoln to Jcwish rant, with Lincoln against slavery
families—and these are many --he and secession the .lew is ever
gathered from the four corners 14 ready to sacrifice his life that the
he
the world I11111 preserved in pt•rma- rest of the human family may

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