Senator Joins ADL in Appeal on Birchers
AChapter in southern Jewish History;
How to Squelch an Anti-Semitic Bigot
NEW YORK (JTA)—Sen. Gale
W. McGee, Wyoming Democrat,
called Sunday for extensive efforts
on the part of moderates every-
where to counter planned massive
action by the John Birch Society,
which, he said, is expected to
spend $12,000,000 on this year's
congressional elections.
education conducted by the league.
Sen. McGee also addressed an
ADL Appeal meeting in Woodmere,
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burdened heart had sought relief have the consolation of knowing,
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in some exhibition of unmeasured that your mind has been thus de-
MORE REPEAT
In the struggle for racial equal- gratitude, had you a wealth of formed in the wisdom of the Great
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ity, there are many factors involv- gifts and se le c t e d from your Architect, that you might serve as
ing the Jews—the merchants who abundance your richest offering to a shadow to bring forth in bold
Addressing a dinner of the Bnai
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are between the hammer and the lay at my feet, you could not have relief the brightest tints of that Brith Anti-Defamation League Ap-
anvil, those who, as whites, are
beautiful picture of religious toler- peal, in Scarsdale, near here, Sen.
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among the targets in a war that
ation engrafted in the constitution McGee expressed concern over the
THE
BEST PLACE
has embroiled the entire country.
of the United States by the wisdom alarming rate of growth of the
The South was vital in the de-
of our fathers. I have the honor to John Birch Society. He pointed out
TO GET YOUR
velopment of American Jewish
remain, sir, Your most obedient that Birch chapters in New Jersey
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history. While New York and
had increased from three to 100 in
servant, Raphael J. Moses."
Philadelphia were among the
recent
years,
and
said
that
the
Moses was elected to the Georgia
chief centers of Jewish activity
Legislature in 1866. He was pop- society was making substantial
when the people's life began in
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ular as a lawyer and his oratory gains in the South by "capitalizing
this country as an organized com-
on the unrest over civil rights
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drew large audiences.
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munity 312 years ago, •much of
activities."
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Jewish life was centered in the
The
ADL
Appeal
is
seeking
An interesting story is recorded
South. Charleston became an im-
about a peddler who deposited his $5,257,000 to support a 10-point pro-
portant center. From New Orleans
hard-earned savings in the Colum- gram of community relations, civil
came Judah P. Benjamin. Jews
bus Savings Bank and sat down rights and intergroup research and
were active in politics, in com-
under an elm tree for a rest. Two
merce, in education, in several
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hours after he had left his few THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Southern states.
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dollars
with
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bank
clerk,
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heard rumblings of a crowd near
One distinguished Jewish South-
the bank and discovered that the
erner — Raphael J. Moses — was
state bank examiners had closed
among those who played an im-
it. He managed to gain his way
portant role in making Georgia
indoors and demanded his $600,
the Peach State, and he also is on
but his request was denied. He
record as having squelched an anti-
asked for the name of a Jewish
Semite. He was among the South's
lawyer and was directed to the of-
famed orators and statesmen. He
fice of Raphael J. Moses.
served in the Confederate Army.
Listening sympathetically to his
And he made history with an im-
story, Moses proceeded to the bank
portant letter he wrote to an anti-
and the peddler identified the bank
RAPHAEL J. MOSES
Semite.
cashier who accepted his money,
Born in Charleston, S. C., in honored me more highly nor dis- Mr. Williams. In the presence of a
1812—he died in Brussels in 1893 tinguished me more gratefully the peddler and the cashier, Moses
—he was the son of Israel Moses. than by proclaiming me a Jew. I addressed the gathered crowd and
He first won fame as a lawyer in am proud of my lineage and my said:
Florida, moved to Columbus, Ga., race. In your severest censure you
"Gentlemen, but two hours ago
in 1849, and immediately entered cannot name an act of my life
politics. Already having attained which dishonors either, or which this pack peddler at my side en-
fame as a youthful orator, he was would mar the character of a , tered Columbus, came to this
And The Entire Staff
recognized as an able campaigner Christian gentleman. I feel it an bank, and Williams accepted from
him
$600
for
deposit,
knowing
the
and was welcomed into political honor to be one of a race whom
I while that the books of the bank
circles.
persecutiton cannot crush; whom were being examined, that the
When the war broke out Raph- prejudice has in vain endeavored bank would soon be closed. Had
ael J. Moses enlisted in the Con- to subdue; who, despite the powers the depositor been a Gentile and
federate Army, rose to the rank of man and the antagonism of the
the cashier a Jew, that Jew would
of major, was attached to the staff combined governments of the
now be hanging from yonder tree.
of Gen. James Longstreet and be- world, protected by the hand of
As it is, this poor foreigner is help-
came affectionately identified as Deity, have burst the temporal less. In this bank I have several
"the honest commissary."
bands with which prejudice would thousands of dollars on deposit .. .
Three of his sons also enlisted have bound them, and after 19 and I'll take my chances on its
in the Confederate army and one centuries of persecution still sur- recovery with you all. But to Mr.
of them died a hero's death in the vive as a nation, and assert their Williams I declare in your pres-
manhood and intelligence, and give ence that if he does not return
Civil War.
A feature article in Atlantic proof of 'the divinity that stirs the $600 to this peddler within 24
West Seven Mile at Grand River
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Monthly about "Men of Mark in within them' by having become a hours I will kill him !"
Georgia" published in the 1940s great factor in the government of
The peddler's $600 was returned
identified Moses as the father of mankind.
to him at once.
See
the peach industry in Georgia. By
"Would you honor me? Call me
This is the story of one of the
stage coach to Macon, by railroad a Jew. Would you place in unen- heroes of the Confederacy, a man
to Savannah, on vessels to Phila- viable prominence your own un- who was an even greater hero as
delphia and New York, this inter- Christian prejudices and narrow- a fighter for human rights and for
esting man sent shipments of minded bigotry? Call me a Jew. justice. By his oratory and his
fresh fruit to Eastern and North- Would you offer a living example fearlessness, Raphael J. Moses
ern markets. And as the first ship- of a man onto whose educated earned an important place among
per of fruit from his plantation- mind toleration cannot enter—on the leading Southern statesmen.
Esquiline, at Columbus, Ga. — whose heart the spirit of liberty
more than a century ago, Moses and the progress of American grin riP 011101110 41 000041110110004111011110000•••••0000004/0411000•00041160041•11011110000000000411 00111111001114
became an important industrial ciples have made no impression? :
figure. It may well be that the You can find it illustrated in your-
term Peach State for Georgia was self. Your narrow and benighted
due to his ingenuity.
mind pandering to the prejudices •
After the civil war, Moses was 1 of your auditory, has attempted to :
urged to be a candidate for Con- ' taunt me by calling me a Jew—
gress, and upon his refusal the one of that peculiar people at 414
Georgia Democratic State Con- whose alters according to teach- •
vention nominated him for a place ings of your theological masters,
in the state legislature. It was on God chose that his son should . •
that occasion that an incident oc- worship.
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curred resulting in Moses' writing
"Strike out the nationality of Ju- •
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his famous letter.
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At that political convention, a for Christ and his apostles. Strike • •
man named Tuggle arose to de- out of sacred history the teachings
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liver a vicious tirade, demanding of the Jews, and you would be as ••
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to know if "this Christian com- ignorant of God and the soul's im- •
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munity" desired to be represented mortal mission as you are of the • .
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"by a Jew." The convention acted duties and amenities of social life.
quickly—in favor of Moses and
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with a rebuke to Tuggle.
thank you for the opportunity I :
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Moses was not present when the a prejudice, confined to a limited 1:
tirade took place. When he was in- number, distinguished for their
formed about it he wrote this let- bigotry and sectarian feelings, of :
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"I have taken time to authenti- pity you for having been cast in a •
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lary selected the epithet of Jews. brightest and noblest examples by 0
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"Had I served you to the extent placing its most perfect models in :
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of my ability in your recent polit- juxtaposition with the meanest
ical aspirations and your over- I specimens of mankind. So that you rammooefoomeeeeesteewaaoseesoottootvetmoseessosesteeseelsoompeooteesooesseeett
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
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