The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. [50], No. [1], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1955 Page: 7 of 56
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In this tercentenary year we
have heard many times the cen-
tral themes of American Jewish
history. We have been told how
this community has grown in
three-hundred years from twenty-
three persons to five million, how
the United States of America was
the first nation in the world to
give equal rights of citizenship to
Christians and Jews, how the
Jews rendered worthy and often
vital service to the nation. These
significant themes may lose in
interest, even though not in im-
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it may be worth the effort to note
how Jews appear in many a foot-
note to American history, past
and present.
For Jews bob up at the most
unexpected places, from early co-
lonial days to the present. In the
year 1695 the governor of South
Carolina desired to interrogate
some Indians captured in the bor-
der wars with the Spanish colony
of Florida. Nobody about could
speak the Indian language, but
there was a Jew present to inter-
pret Spanish. We do not even
know his name; his very existence
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empty land, and in the following
four years brought 5,000 immi-
grants from Alsace and the
Rhineland, investing a great for-
tune in the enterprise. The town
of Castroville bears his name,
which the state later gave to one
of its counties as well.
The first president of the
American Federation of Labor,
who held that office for thirty-
eight years, was Samuel Gom-
pers, an English Jew. As an im-
migrant boy of thirteen he assist-
ed his father at the cigar makers’
bench; he took his turn at read-
ing to the other workers, and
learned the art of public address;
he attended classes at Cooper
Union. The little boy who joined
a labor union when that was a
radical act, who organized many
industries and led many strikes,
became in his old age the domi-
nating figure of the American
labor movement.
At the historic siege of Fort
McHenry in 1812, Francis Scott
Key, an observer, conceived the
“Star Spangled Banner." But
others were present, too; the rec-
ords show that eight Jews were
listed among the defenders of the
Fort. Naturally, for some Jews
fought in ever)’ war and almost
in every battle from the days of
the Revolution. In the Civil War
seven Jews were awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor,
and three rabbis were appointed
chaplains by President Lincoln.
In the colony of South Caro-
lina, as the Revolution was begin-
ning, Francis Salvador was a
member of the Provincial Con-
gress, as well as one of the earli-
est victims of the war. When the
shadows of the Civil War were
threatening, in 1856, three young
Jewish immigrants fought in the
abolitionist band of John Brown
in bleeding Kansas.
If we turn to the Pacific Coast,
we find that in 1849, the very
year of the Gold Rush, two min-
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is known to us only in the
obscure reminiscences of a colon-
ial governor.
When John Charles Fremont
made his epochal fifth expedition
across the Rockies in 1854, trac-
ing the route for the future rail-
way to the West, one Solomon
Nunes Carvalho was the official
artist of the expedition. His fas-
cinating book, “Travel and Ad-
venture in the Far West,” has
been reprinted this year by the
Jewish Publication Society.
In 1803, when New Orleans
was still French territory, a re-
tiring young man of twenty-eight
settled there and opened a shop;
when he died exactly a century
ago, Judah Touro was famous the
country over as a generous donor
to many causes, Jewish, Christian
and patriotic. In his will he left
bequests to every Jewish congre-
gation then existing in the coun-
try, to the neglected Jews of
Jerusalem, and to a hospital in
New Orleans. There is a Touro
Street in Newport, Rhode Island,
where he was born, and in New
Orleans, where he died.
Every section of the country
welcomed a few Jews among the
pioneers, and usually one of them
was an outstanding figure. For
the Republic of Texas this was
Henry Castro, born in France as
Henri de Castro, member of a
famous Jewish line. He made a
contract with Sam Houston in
1842 to find colonists for the
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White, D. H. The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. [50], No. [1], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1955, newspaper, April 7, 1955; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1527482/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .