Mordecai M. Noah's Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews e-bog

I have long desired, my friends and countrymen, for an Oppor tunity to appear before you in behalf of a venerable people, whose history, whose sufferings, and whose extraordinary destiny have, for a period of 4000 years, filled the world with awe and astonish ment: a people at once the most favored and most neglected, the most beloved, and yet the most persecuted; a people under whose salutary laws all the civilized nations of the earth now repose; a people whose origin may date from the cradle of creation, and who are likely to be preserved to the last moment of recorded time.