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The Jews in the Rhenish Provinces of Prussia.
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| We learn from the Deutsche Schnellpost of New York, that the Diet of
the Prussian Rhenish provinces has passed a resolution in favour of the
complete equalization of rights between the Jewish and Christian
population of that part of Prussia. We, however, await further accounts
before we permit ourselves to rejoice over this measure, as we believe
that it must receive the sanction of the king before it can be
operative, and then we know not whether it will be of any practical
results, whilst, as we think, all offices are virtually in the gift of
his Prussian majesty. Nevertheless, we hail it as an evidence that
Christians begin to feel ashamed of the injustice they have so
long done to the Jews, and that they will sooner or later regard us as
political brethren, who only wish to be different from their
fellow-citizens in matters of belief alone, for which they are
accountable to no other being save the Father of all mankind. |
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