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Excerpt from A Southern Philo-Semite: Josephus Daniels of North Carolina
During his ambassadorial stay in Mexico, Daniels' diary-letters show that he did everything he could to mitigate the lot of the Euro pean refugee Jews there. In shirt-sleeve Diplomat, Daniels' Mexican memoir, he entitled his short chapter on Jewish affairs The Scattered Nation.44 He used that title advisedly, for it was the title of the cele brated philo-semitic oration by Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina. The original Scattered Nation was written by Vance, the state's folk hero and Civil War Governor, in 1891 as a protest against the vicious Russian pogroms of that year. Daniels knew the Vance story intimately; he knew of Vance's many Jewish friends and of his likening The Scat tered Nation to the invigorating and distinct Gulf Stream. He knew also the story of May, 1865, when a troop of Federal cavalry arrested the Governor at his Statesville home preparatory to delivering him at the Salisbury railroad station thirty-five miles away and sending him on to prison in Washington. There was not a horse or rig to be spared in town.
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