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JUDAH P. BENJAMIN
(Continued from page 32)
Judah P. Benjamin, who would
been elected the next vice-pre*
and then president of the
States.”
Some years ago, the Library
gress acquired a manuscript di
Benjamin covering 393 pages, b
fortunately it throws little or n
on his personal or official cart,
contains daily ntries of a miscellaneous
character, but seldom refers to the
diarist’s personal activities.
When he fled to England his
had preceded him. Disraeli wr,
him saying that he hoped to p u
him to Gladstone and Tenny
a dinner which was to be ana
Miss Pollock, daughter of Sir Fred
erick Pollock, speaks of him at this
time as a short, stout, genial man
of decidedly Jewish descent, with
bright dark eyes, and all the polite
ness and bonhommie of a Frenchman,
looking as if he had never had a care
in his life.”
Concerning his Jewishness, his ab
lest biographer, Pierce Butler, states:
“Mr. Benjamin early ceased to con
form to the observances of the faith
in which he was born; but he never
entirely lost either his belief in or
his memory of the tenets of that faith;
he neither obtruded nor sought to
conceal his Jewish birth, of which,
indeed he was proud.” It is true, how
ever, that he married out of the faith
and that on his deathbed Catholic rites
were performed over him, and that the
services of that Church consecrated
his funeral. Throughout his life he
remained in close touch with his sis
ter, Mrs. Abraham Levy who resided
in America. Max J. Kohler, in his
admirable paper on Judah P. Benja
min (Pubs. Amer. Jewish Hist. Soc.,
No. 12, 1904), declares: “Benjamin’s
parents were both Jews, and as far as
he had any religious views, he re
mained a Jew all his lifetime, though
in fact he never actively affiliated
himself with any church.” Further
details are given by Mr. Kohler which
confirm the above. Thus: "In Eng
land, he did not identify himself at all
with Jewish affairs, it seems, yet Jew
ish friends there, in obituary sketches
remarked that one appealing to him
on the plea of community of race was
always sure to enlist his sympath}
and support.”
Seen in perpective his career is
from every point of view a remark
able one. It was not only his brilliant
oratorical gifts, but his legal acumen
as well, that won him an unusual in
come during the latter years ° "
life in England of more than
000 yearly, according to those " 1
were in a position to know,
cause of the South triumphed ^
up an interesting vista to conjecture
how such culmination might
fected his career in America. 1
annals of the English Bar ^
him as one of its most bri!
lites.