The thunder and lightning which were recently filling the air and gladdening the hearts of the Greek-Orthodox people are no more.

But have the Jews actually gained by the change from the illegal persecutions [in the form of pogroms] to the legal persecutions of the third of May?
Maltreated, plundered, reduced to beggary, put to shame, slandered, and dispirited, the Jews have been cast out of the community of human beings.

Their destitution, amounting to beggary, has been firmly established and definitely affixed to them.

Gloomy darkness, without a ray of light, has descended upon that bewitched and narrow world in which this unhappy tribe has been languishing so long, gasping for breath in the suffocating atmosphere of poverty and contempt.

Will this go on for a long time?
Will the light of day break at last?
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