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[fol. iv.]

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but in Eg. might first proclaimed its will to persecute, man
first announced his determination to oppress his fellow creatures
of a different faith, & justified his oppression on the score of
policy; In Eg. God first declared himself the champion of the
holy cause involved, He first showed that when all human
means failed to right the wronger, He could interfere to avenge
the cries of the martyred innocents "The Lord shall fight for you
ye shall hold your peace." Since then, wild beasts have fed on
Jewish flesh, the block & the axe have been dyed with Jewish blood,
living Jewish victums have been impaled quivering in unutterable
agony, the rack & the wheel have croaked a hoarse echo to
groans wrung from Jewish heart-strings; many a charred
Jewish corpse has been blown in the ashes from the smouldering
stake, many a Jewish limb has gladdened the heart of an
infuriated Zealot; Jewish maidens have been dishonoured before
the eyes of their expiring mothers; Jewish youths have been
maimed in the presence of their dying sires: Jewish Spirits
have been degraded to the dust & almost all that was human
has been crushed out of them; Everything that extortion and
avarice could extract from Jewish coffers has been exacted
even at the price of mutilation & torture; to Jewish