Answer: A. Worried and desperate
Explanation: Chief John Ross sounds distressed and disheartened. (Some evidence includes lines 34 [harassed], 42-48 [despoiled of private possessions, stripped of every attribute of freedom, denationalized, disenfranchised, etc.], 52 [overwhelmed, sickened, utterance is paralyzed]).
A). Becasue anti-semitism was very pervasive in german society at the time
