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Lincoln'sJewishFriends,,His l
Rescinding of Gen. Grants
Anti-Semitic 'Class - Bigotry
fessing a Christian. faith, the
By CHARLES M. SEGAL
Next year, Americans will in- story was different in the North.
Downtown-Union Printers
; augurate the observance of the H e r e, regimental chaplains
100th anniversary of the out- were to be "appointed by the
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: break of the American Civil regimental commander on the
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vote of the field officers and
War.
Many of us will take time out company commanders present,"
to think about a man named and the candidates had to be
1 Greetings an the Holiday I Lincoln — "Honest Abe," and "regularly - ordained minister(s)
i "the baboon" and "the turtle" of some Christian denomina-
tion" to be eligible under the
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American Jews have special law.
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reasons for remembering Lin-
In September 1861, when a
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coln as a friend of "the Isra- YMCA worker discovered Mi-
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chael Allen, a Philadelphia
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0_,, j• ish friends including Abraham
Jew, serving as chaplain to
Jonas of Quincy, Illinois; Leo- the "Cameron's Dragoons,"
pol Blumenberg of. Baltimore; such a furor was created in
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Simon Wolf of Washington, D. the press and in the Adju-
C. His Jewish chiropodist, Isa- tant General's Office that Al-
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char Zacharie of New York, "so len was impelled to resign
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often put me upon my feet," the rather than face dismissal
President once said, "That I with dishonor.
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The Allen incident set the
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I mark while expressing an inter- have the discriminatory clause
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est in Palestine as a Jewish Na- removed from existing law. If
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tional Homeland. But all of Jews were free to fight a corn-
- these things are merely inter- mon enemy; if Jews were free
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esting. What is significant, how- to sacrifice their lives for the
ever, is what Lincoln did to freedom their country espoused,
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combat two major challenges to surely they were entitled to the
the American Jewish commun- benefits of freedom, and that
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included the same freedom in
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} When the Civil War envel- religious matters that their
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oped the country in flames, Christian comrades-in-arms en-
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and South; thousands en-
This issue was brought to the
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listed in the Union and Con- personal attention of President
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federate armies. No previous Lincoln by the Rev. Arnold
American conflict had seen so Fischel, representing the Board
Maldaver Brothers Imany Jewish boys in uniform, of Delegates of American Isa-
and that created a chaplaincy elites. In a conference, Lincoln
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army. Although the Confed- first time this subject had been
erate government did not con- brought under his notice, that
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fine appointments to its Chap- it was altogether new to him,
laincy Corps to clergymen pro- that he would take the subject
into serious consideration." Two
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days later, Lincoln notified Fi-
schel that "a new law broad
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enough to cover what was de-
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sired "in behalf of the Israel-
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Specializing in Steak Dinners
Jews for special favor. He re-
law was finally approved.
; While 1862 brought terrible garded them as he did other
Union military disasters it also groups. "How can any man who
saw the first important Union abhors the oppression of Ne-
groes be in favor of degrading
i victories.
I As Union armies began driv- classes of white people?" he
ing into Southern areas of Ten- said before assuming the Pres-
nessee and Mississippi, hordes idency. His attitude toward
of traders, adventurers, specu- Jews was part and parcel of his
lators began to follow the attitude toward all "foreigners."
troops. . "I esteem them not better
In an effort to meet this than other people, not any
situation, General Grant, com- worse," he said in Cincinnati,
manding the Department of en route to the White House.
Tennessee, issued an order on "It is not my nature when I see
December 17, 1862, which a people borne down by the
constituted one of the most weight of their shackles—the
anti-Semitic edicts in Amer- oppression of tyranny—to make
icon history. This General their life more bitter by heap-
Order No. 11 condemned the ing upon them greater bur-
Jews "as a class," charging dens; but rather would I do all
them with "violating every in my power to raise the yoke
regulation of trade estab- than to add anything that would
lished by the Treasury De- tend to crush them."
partment," and ordering their
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expulsion from the Depart-
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ment within 24 hours under
penalty of imprisonment;
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there was no right to redress.
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Human compassion and hu-
man decency went out the win-
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dow as Yankee soldiers began
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implementing the Order. Jews
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were treated worse than cattle. •
In Padukah, "respectable Un- ,J1McirTtrincrninniMinnr 2
ion citizens" who had "at no
time engaged in trade within
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Grant" were expelled with their
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confiscated and Jews were de-
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treatment when the greedy
speculators also included men
of other faiths and national or-
igins? Said one soldier: "Be-
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cause you are Jews, and are
neither a benefit to the Union
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or Confederacy."
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Barred from communicating
with Grant, Jewish leaders went
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were immediately ushered into
the President's office. After
listening to their report, Lin-
coln promised "protection . . .
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at once." To another Jewish del-
egation, he declared: "To con-
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