For long ages the Jews in Rome have been subjects of the most relentless and merciless oppression on the part of the papacy. They have been compelled to live in the Ghetto, the most filthy and unwholesome part of the city; they have not been allowed to possess real property, nor to attend school; and they have been subject to other cruel and indecent restrictions. Almost one of the first acts of the government of Victor Emanuel, on taking possession of the city of Rome, was to remove these odious restrictions and admit the Jews to equal civil rights. But this occupation of Rome is styled by the papacy, “a temporary triumph of the devil’s kingdom.” So if the poor Jews are to regard the authority of the vicegerent of Christ, they must attribute to the triumph of the devil’s kingdom, almost the first experience of Christian kindness and charity they have ever known. How far will this be likely to draw them toward the Christian religion? This persistent and malignant persecution of the Jews, is one of the foulest blots upon the filthy and blood-begrimed escutcheon of the papal power. Place it beside the infallibility movement, and see how they look together. Rejoice, prophets and apostles; rejoice, martyrs and saints; rejoice, all in whose hearts a spark of humanity yet lives, that the day is at hand, when this mother of harlots shall be rewarded as she has rewarded others; and the cup which she has filled, shall be filled to her double.