Post by Tamrin on Aug 8, 2008 16:14:49 GMT 10
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This Op-Ed piece was written in response to the international rumor going around that Benjamin Franklin gave a speech to the Continental Congress in which he advocated expelling the Jews from this country and prohibiting their further immigration here. Would you please consider carrying it in your next issue? Kate Ohno, Assistant Editor, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, and Frances Cresswell, Dorchester County Library, provided information and suggestions.
B. FRANKLIN: A MOST SUCCESSFUL MAN
Hear ye! Hear ye! We Yankees do not take Kindly to the Casting of the basest Sort of Aspersion against one of our very Decent and very Munificent Founding Fathers, the Honorable Mr. Benjamin Franklin. It has come to our Attention that there are those misguided Souls who walk this Planet and dare to twist History to their Wicked Rhetoric: putting forth the ignoble Propaganda of that fine Individual being an anti-Semite, of all preposterous Notions! We would not allow such Calumny to pilfer an Honorable Gentle Man's fine Reputation, but will, ourselves, Stand and Deliver in his Stead, in True American Fashion and Spirit, so engendered by the Likes of Mr. Franklin.
