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EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF HON. MR. BENJAMIN, OF LOUISIANA, ON THE KANSAS QUESTION: SHOWING THE TRUE MEANING OF THE KANSAS LAW, AND HIS REASONS FOR JOINING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE, MAY 2, 1856.
Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1856. 8pp. Disbound, margin-spotted. Good+. Benjamin of Louisiana was the second Jew to serve in the United States Senate, after David Yulee of Florida. Benjamin's fear that the South was becoming a beleaguered minority caused him to abandon his Whig roots. "On May 2..... More