Baton Rouge Tri Weekly Gazette & Comet

Gen. Grant and the Israelites.

The Israelite, a very able and respectable paper published in Cincinnati, and devoted to the interests of the "Children of Israel," is out in bitter opposition to Gen. Grant and the party in Ohio which recently nominated him as a candidate for the Presidency. The Israelite bases its opposition upon the famous or infamous order issued by Gen. Grant against the Jews during his command of the Department of the Tennessee, and was which dated from headquarters at Oxford, Miss., on the 17th December, 1862. It directed the expulsion, within twenty-four hours, of every Jew within the Department; their arrest and confinement as prisoners in case of their return, and a denial to them of passes to visit headquarters for trade permits.

"This barbarian order," says the Israelite, "caused a general outcry of horror all over this country, in the public press, public meetings and resolutions in any and every form."

A resolution severely denouncing the order as "illegal and unjust" and its execution as "tyrannical and cruel," and as deserving the earnest condemnation of Congress and the President, was offered by Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, but was tabled by a very close vote—56 to 53. A similar resolution introduced in the Senate, by Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, was shamefully defeated only seven Senators having "the moral courage and moral rectitude," says the Israelite, "to stand by an outraged class of their fellow-citizens."

President Lincoln was loth to believe, for a long time, that Gen. Grant did issue such an order, but when convinced of the fact, he immediately revoked it, and expressed his indignation at the outrage in the strongest terms.

With such a record of glaring injustice and proscription toward the Jewish people staring him in the face, Gen. Grant will find arrayed against him in his aspirations and manœuvrings for the Presidency, a voice and power more potent than he ever dreamed of when launching forth his rigid order of intolerance and persecution.