"It has come to the point where the North must exterminate us or agree to separation… The war may still go on for a long time. However, we count on the financial exhaustion of the North. I admit to you that we don't understand how the government's credit has been maintained up to now."
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Conversation with French minister to the United States Baron Henri Mercier, April 1862, from the report subsequently made by Mercier to the Quai d’Orsay. Quoted in Case & Spencer, The United States and France: Civil War Diplomacy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970), ISBN 0-8122-1076-X, page 280
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Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. Born a British subject in the West Indies, he became a citizen of the United States, serving as a Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and then as a U.S. Senator from Louisiana. During the American Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy and held three Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America. He was the first Jewish Cabinet-member in a North American government, a
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