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Excerpt from Judah P. Benjamin American history, certainly, scarcely contains the record of a personality more intrinsically interesting than that of Judah P. Benj amin, the Jewish lawyer and statesman who, after conspicuous success at the bar in this country, after continuous service in the leadership of the Confederacy, again achieved the most honorable triumphs at the bar of England. Were his own life otherwise quite barren of interest - which it is not - the mere story of his share in the great Civil War, if properly told, should prove a fascinating record. Therefore it is that the present writer is bold enough to hope that the mere interest of the subject and the substance of this narrative may help to atone for his own errors and shortcomings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Judah P. Benjamin: Statesman and Jurist Concerning his position as a lawyer, it will suffice to say that he was regarded as the ablest lawyer of the South already in 1852, when he was elected to the U. S. Senate, that he was offered the attorney-general-ship of the United States by one President and the nomination to a seat on the Supreme Court bench by another, and had become one of the recognized leaders of the American bar ten years before he began life anew at the bottom of the ladder at the English bar in 1866, from which he retired in 1882, as its acknowledged leader, in the possession of an income of over per year, and the author of one of the ablest law treatises of our English juris prudence. The late J. L. M. Curry, one of his most scholarly associates at the helm of the Confederacy, writing in says of him: In the Supreme Court of the United States he could fitly be compared with Wirt, Pinkney, Carter and Choate and a learned Scotch Judge (lord Shand) told me some years ago in Seville that he stood at the head of the English bar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A rare Sephardic Jew in the Old South and a favorite of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin has been described as “the brains of the Confederacy.” He held three successive Confederate cabinet posts—attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state—but some have questioned Benjamin’s loyalty to Davis and the extent of his influence. More than 140 years after Benjamin first appeared on the Confederate scene, historians still debate his place in the history of the Lost Cause. Robert Douthat Meade’s absorbing account of the life of this enigmatic Civil War figure, who built a second brilliant career in England after the war, remains the definitive study of Benjamin.
This biography was acclaimed by The New York Times as "deeply interesting" and "an absorbing account" of the life of the man called "the brains of the Confederacy". 16 pages of illustrations.
Excerpt from Speech of Hon.: J. P, Benjamin, of Louisiana, on the Right of Secession, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Dec, 31, 1860 I say her sword, because I am not one of those who believe in the possibility of a peaceful disruption of the Union. It cannot conic until all possible means of conciliation have been exhausted; it cannot come until every angry passion shall have been rinsed; it cannot come until brotherly feeling shall have been converted into deadly hate; and then, sir, with feelings embittered by the consciousness of injustice, or passions high-wrought and inflamed, dreadful will be the internecine war that must ensue. "Mr. President, among what I consider to be the most prominent dangers that now exist, is the fact that the leaders of the Republican party at the North have succeeded in persuading the masses of the North that there is no danger. They have finally so wrought upon the opinion of their own people at home by the constant iteration of the same false statements and the same false principles, tiiat the people of the North cannot be made to believe that the South is in earnest, not withstanding its calm and resolute determination which produces the quiet so ominous of evil if ever the clouds shall burst. The people of the North are taught to laugh at the danger of dissolution. One honorable Senator is reported to have said, with exquisite amenity, that the South could not be kicked out of the Union. The honorable Senator from New York says: "The slaveholders, in spite of alt their threats, are bound to it by the same bonds, and they are bound to it also by a bond peculiarly their own - that of dependence on it for their own safety. Three million slaves are a hostile force constantly in their presence, in their ter'y midst. The servile war i9 always the most fearful form of war. The world without sympathizes with the servile enemy. Against that war the American Union is the only defence of the slaveholders - their only protection. If ever they shall, in a season of madness, recede from that Union, and provoke that war, they will - soon come back again.' "The honorable Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Wilson] indulges in the repetition of a figure of rhetoric that seems peculiarly to please bis ear and tickle his fancy. He represents the southern mother as clasping her infant with convulsive aud closer embrace, because the black avenger, with uplifted dagger, would be at the door, and he tells 113 that is a bond of Union which we dare-not violate." Mr. President, no man can deny that the words uttered four years and a half ago form a faithful picture of the state of things that we see around us now. "Would to God, sir, that I could believe that the apprehensions of civil war, then plainly expressed, were but the vain imaginations of a timorous spirit. Alas, sir, the feelings and sentiments expressed since the commencement of this session, on the opposite side of this floor, almost force the belief that a civil war is their desire; and that the day is full near when American citizens are to meet each other in hostile array; and when the hands of brothers will be reddened with the blood of brothers. Mr. President, the State of South Carolina, with a unanimity scarcely with parallel in history, has dissolved the union which, connects her with the other States of the confederacy, and declared herself independent. We, the representatives of those remaining States, stand here to-day, bound either to recognize that independence, or to overthrow it; either to permit her peaceful secession from the confederacy, or to put her down by force of arms. That is the issue. That is the sole issue. No artifice can conceal it. No attempts by men to disguise it from their own consciences, and from an excited or alarmed public, can suffice to conceal it. Those attempts are equally futile and disingenuous. As for the attempted distinction between coercing a State, and f
Confederate Privateer is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region. A resident of Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Harpers Ferry, Beall was a member of the militia guarding the site of John Brown’s execution in 1859. Beall later signed on as a private in the Confederate army and suffered a wound in defense of Harpers Ferry early in the war. He quickly became a fanatical Confederate, ignoring the issue of slavery by focusing on a belief that he was fighting to preserve liberty against a tyrannical Republican party that had usurped the republic and its constitution. Limited by poor health but still seeking an active role in the Confederate cause, Beall traveled to the Midwest and then to Canada, where he developed an elaborate plan for Confederate operations on the Great Lakes. In Richmond, Beall laid his plan before Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory. Instead of the Great Lakes operation, Mallory authorized a small privateering action on the Chesapeake Bay. Led by “Captain” Beall, the operation damaged or destroyed several ships under the protection of the U.S. Navy. For his part in organizing the raids, Beall became known as the “Terror of the Chesapeake.” After Union forces captured Beall and his men, the War Department prepared to try them as pirates. But Secretary of War Edwin Stanton backed down, and Beall was later freed in a prisoner exchange. Organizing another privateering operation on the Great Lakes, Beall had some early successes on the water. He then hatched a plan to derail a passenger train transporting Confederate prisoners of war near Niagara, New York, but was captured before he could carry out the mission. The Union army charged Beall with conspiracy, found him guilty, and executed him. Harris’s history of Beall offers a new view of paramilitary efforts by civilians to support the Confederacy. Though little remembered today, Beall was a legendary figure in the Civil War South, so much so that his execution was on John Wilkes Booth’s list of reasons to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Based on exhaustive research in primary and secondary sources and placed in the context of more extensive Confederate guerrilla operations, Confederate Privateer is sure to be of interest to Civil War scholars and general readers interested in the conflict.
Excerpt from Judah's Lion Well, I shall not dispute the matter with you. Nevertheless, Alick, I shall pray to the God of Abra ham that before you reach that spot you may have learned to shrink from the sacrilege you now speak of so lightly.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The House of Judah The man gently touched it with his lips, for an instant searching deeply the depths of the beautiful eyes trustingly turned to him. Without falter, without quiver the scrutiny was met. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Reveals the breadth of Jewish participation in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. Rosen describes the Jewish communities in the South and explains their reasons for supporting the South. He relates the experiences of officers, enlisted men, politicians, rabbis and doctors.