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WELLINGTON PROVINCE ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR.
—Yours, &c., J. GRAHAM SMITH.
Little Bendigo.
SIR,—In loitering about the Mining Ex
change on Saturday afternoon, I saw several
groups of men discussing the merits of Messrs
Gore and [?] heard that the chief
objection to the candidature of the latter
gentleman was that he was a Jew. If those
objecting dissentients were conversant with
the natural aud national history of the Jews
—their poetry, biography, axiomatic
philosophy, &o.—they would know that the
Jewish nation was the greatest that ever
ruled upon this earth, that it produced some
of the most famous statesmen, architects,
generals, warriors, financiers, and artificers.
The Jews have given to all Christian nations
their codes of moral lawe. That marvellous
moral reformer, Jesus of Nazareth, the
mighty carpenter who has reconstructed the
world, was a Jew, and the greatest
portion of civilised Europe worship a
Jewess in the person of the Virgin
Mary. The Jews are the chosen people
of God, and be says:—“He who touches
them toucheth the apple of my eye.’’ The
Rev. Joseph Wild and other writers on
•‘Anglo Israel” affirm that the English
people are the descendants of the 10 lost
tribes of Israel, and that Jeremiah the
prophet carried with him to Ireland Z-pha,
daughter of .Zedekiab, the last king of
Judah, arid married her to an Irish chieftain,
from whom is lineally descended Queen
Victoria, thereby assuming that the Jews
and Israelity are restored to a national
existence by Queen Victoria representing the
Oavidic dynasty. So, sir, Mr Steinfeld
being a Jew ought to promote that gentle
man’s candidature. I consider the election
rests on bronrder issues than nationality.
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