By Gerald L. K. Smith
On the occasion of the Convention for the framing of the United States Constitution, Benjamin Franklin is credited with making the following statement to his associates: "In whatever country Jews have settled in any great numbers, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded by objecting to it's restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
"For over 1700 years the Jew have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world today give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some cogent reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.
"If you do not exclude them from these United States, in this Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance and jeopardized our liberty.
"If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them sustenance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.
"Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics; let them be born where they will, or how many generations they are away from Asia they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even though they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitution,"
The foregoing statement is quoted in full in a book by Charles Stevens entitled National Destiny on pp. 74-75. Numerous publishers have republished the above statement and invariably the Jews and their ilk decry such publishers and brand the statement as false.
True enough, the Jews and others have confiscated documents which formerly existed establishing the truth concerning Franklin's statement, but we hold in our hand a signed statement by a very important citizen of Washington, D. C., assuring us that she, personally, saw the diary of General Charles Coatesworth Pinckney, who was a member of he Constitutional Convention. In the Pinckney papers there was a full account of Franklin's statement.
The lady whose signature we have, is Mrs. Miriam Dingley, sometimes known Mrs. Edward Nelson Dingley. Mrs. Dingley is the mother of Madalen Dingley Leetch (Mrs. William D.) who appeared before a special Congressional Committee June 13, 1949. She identified herself as follows: "I represent the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Society of New England Women, and the Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (of Boston 1634) and the American Coalition of 85 participating societies. It was my privilege to serve as chairman of resolutions for the Twenty-third Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense which is composed of 35 participating organizations and more than 2,000,000 women. Each of these organizations adopted resolutions opposing Federal aid to education and also opposing the subversive indoctrination of young and old by leftwing educators, textbooks, and national study magazines."
Mrs. Dingley, in a personal letter to me, says: Dear Mr. Smith:This is a copy made by me of the biography of General Coatesworth Pinckney from the National Cylopedia of American Biography. This should make it clear to you why Benjamin Franklin's prophecy about the Jewish race appears now as an actual reality. "Birds of a feather flock together." Franklin had been to France before General Pinckney was assigned to a post there, and their experiences overseas, in those early years of sailing ships crossing the wide main of the turbulent Atlantic Ocean, tended inevitably to the strengthening of the interests these two great characters had in common; i. e., devotion to the young "land of the brave and the free." Both Pinckney and Franklin had run ins with the Jews over seas in their day, you see!
Now, the Charles Coatesworth Pinckney's "diary" or "memo book" which my mother and I saw at the Franklin Museum on June 14, 1892, was an open oblong book, held open at the four corners by square black cubes, I presumed to be of iron, as they were used as weights to hold the "memo book" open. Closed, that "memo book" would have been about seven and one half inches long. In back of this "memo book," or "diary," stood a stand of tin, metal, like a musician's rack on a concert stage, and it held a piece of white paper on which was written in perfect Spencerian handwriting: "The Diary of General C. C. Pinckney regarding the Franklin Incident."
It was this that caught my mother's eye and caused us to loiter by that showcase and read what was on the open two pages of this long memo book, which turned out to be Franklin's prophecy regarding the Jews, which we see materializing all about us and throughout the countries of the world today.
I hope you will call upon me when you come to Washington. I want to show you my mother's memorandum book containing the Franklin prophecy in her own Spencerian writing, now fading fast from legibility, but still eloquently readable, and show you her photograph at the time of our visit to the Franklin Museum.In the forenoon of that day, June 14, we had visited the Betsy Ross house on Arch Street, as up to that time Betsy Ross was the character who held my attention most. I hadn't heard of the Franklin prophecy; neither had mother. Mother's people and my father's forebears were forthright hard-bitten patriots. Gruff men, severe of countenance and of demeanor, but as to the latter they were exemplars of high character. No dilly-dallying about any of those Founders and Patriots and their descendants, which, thank God, I am, and have established the fact thereof in 14 of the Hereditary Genealogical Societies.
As I have told you, I was born in Boston, Ward 24, which is still Ward 24 today as in 1866, though Ward 24 is a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, known as Dorchester. My great grandsire and his son fought at the battles of Lexington and Concord, and my Great Grandfather made his own and his son's rifle. These homemade weapons are on exhibition in the Ancient Arts Exhibit at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
My son, Colonel Nelson Dingley, had them placed there when he was stationed there a good many years ago, about 1919, 1 think it was. He is today Military Attache at the American Embassy at Warsaw, Poland.
I think I told you in a previous letter that in my day in Massachusetts, as a child growing up and later as a high school grade pupil in a private school in the city of Boston itself, everyone had a Poor Richard's Almanac hanging on the window catch in every home in New England. The Franklin prophecy regarding the Jews was known then, far and wide, though some, must have thought our Ben was a bit rough on the Jews for such a good man, per se Franklin was such a good, good man in those days as regarded by the "dyed-in-the-wool" down-right Yankees--men and women who knew not the artifice of saying one thing and doing the opposite. Frankness is a virtue, it is written, but believe me their brand of it was often painful, more often than not, even as late as my era from 1866 on.
THE PINCKNEY BIOGRAPHY AS COPIED BY MRS.
DINGLEY FROM THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA
OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY
In June, 1775, he was a member of the first provincial Congress of South Carolina and was made a Captain soon after, and soon after that was made a Colonel, when he joined the Northern Army. After the successful defense of Fort Alountree, South Carolina, went north with the army and became an aide to Washington at Brandywine and at Germantown.
Returning south in the spring of 1778 he had a part in the unsuccessful expedition to Florida. In January, 1779, he presided over the South Carolina Senate.
In the rapid march which saved Charleston from the British General Provost, he displayed great resolution and intrepidity, as well as in the subsequent invasion of Georgia and the assault upon the lines of Savannah. In the attack upon Charleston, April 1780, he was in favor of holding out to the last extremity. When the surrender to the British took place Pinckney became a prisoner and suffered a cruel confinement. He was exchanged in February 1782 and was made a Brigadier General November 3, 1783. After the war he resumed his law practice. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the Constitutional Convention which formed the United States Constitution.
He took an active part in the debates and it was on his motion that the following clause was made a part of that instrument: "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to of that instrument: "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the authority of the United States." After the organization of the United States Government he declined successively the appointment to the United States Supreme Court, and Secretary of State, tendered him by President Washington. He was afterwards appointed a Major General of the South Carolina Militia in July, 1796.
General Pinckney was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France, but was ordered by the French Directory to quit France within 30 days. In February 1787, he withdrew to Amsterdam when war became inevitable. It was C. C. Pinckney's defiant statement: "Millions for Defense but not one cent for tribute," which became so popular. When he came back to the U.S.A. he was made a Major General by President Washington.
From 1789 to 1801 he was U. S. Senator from South Carolina. He resigned his seat to accept the post of United States Minister to Spain. Remained there until 1805.
He died in Charleston, August 16, 1825.The other Charles Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1758. This Charles Pinckney also served in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1789 which framed the Constitution and in which he acted a distinguished part. But what his relationship was to Charles Coatesworth Pinckney, the write up does not reveal, though he probably was a younger brother.
Another letter from Mrs. Dingley: Dear Mr. Smith: I am here and now enclosing a mighty interesting leaflet which turned up (literally turned up) in some mail I received a few days ago. I do not know who sent it. It was included in other patriotic information which was neither unusually good or of interest as compared with this, which I am passing onto you. It is titled "Franklin the Prophet."I believe it will contribute to your peace of mind regarding myself and my story concerning Franklin's effort at the Constitutional Congress of May, 1787, held in Philadelphia. Franklin was one of the six men designated to draw up the Declaration of Independence for the United States of America. One must remember that the infant Congress sent Benjamin Franklin to Paris in 1776 to persuade the French King to help us in the war, the War of the Revolution.
France recognized our independence and made a treaty with the U.S.A., a treaty of alliance and of commerce, signed February 6, 1778, and soon had a fleet on the way to help the struggling colonies. Benjamin Franklin negotiated all of these, and among these deals he tried to lease some ships from a firm of shipbuilders by the name of J. de Neufville, who he presently discovered to be "money-changers" of the most conscienceless type, which he revealed fully at the Constitutional Congress of 1787, held in Philadelphia, some members of which were hesitant to have the money changers publicized in the frank and resolute language which appears in the Franklin denunciation of that race.
I am sure I have written you how resentful Boston and environs became when the remains of the wise prophet regarding Judaism became the possession of the City of Philadelphia--that is, what was left of his long deceased mortal remains. My mother, Mrs. Henry Crane Robinson, who copied the Franklin prophecy at the Franklin Museum on June 14, 1892, never ceased to express her indignation over this removal of the Boston-born and bred New Englander to the City of Philadelphia, and I absorbed her views and sentiment, as did many another neighbor and friend, who felt much as she did, without her indignation added to theirs.
I want also to remind you that there is not the slightest doubt in the world but that many persons of Anglo-Saxon birth and growth in this Republic possess copies of the Franklin prophecy, but prefer to remain unidentified concerning it. This Franklin prophecy was no secret until within the last twenty or twenty-five years, or thereabouts. When the financial power of the Jews became manifest even to the most dull-witted American, they sought cover and professed ignorance of any such "prophecy."
The City of Philadelphia probably built the Franklin Museum, or devotees of Benjamin Franklin subscribed to its erection, and filled it with every possible relic of his handiwork and mental efforts. The Museum still stands on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, as far as I know. It is constructed of gray granite and is an architectural asset to the City and State of Pennsylvania. Around the corner from the Franklin Museum stand numerous opulent structures erected by the Guggenheim Foundation, known as the Franklin Institute. What became of the contents of the old, the early Franklin Museum, I would that I knew, or had any idea concerning those intricate and therefore precious mementos of a great soul and a great American.
You will see by this printed enclosure, Mr. Smith, that all I have asserted hitherto in my letters regarding the Franklin prophecy is borne out therein in this printed enclosure, although I have no idea who sent it to me, but I feel that it has been and is being circulated generally.
Respectfully and truthfully yours for the truth at all hazards,
(Signed) Miriam R. Dingley
(Mrs. Edward N.)
P.S. "The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin," by John Bigelow are most interesting but do not contain the Franklin prophecy. A man named Albert Morton of 210 Stockton Street, San Francisco, who was editor and published of "Psychic Studies," about the same time that John Bigelow published his book, or books, on Franklin (which would be before my time) published a great deal about Franklin, but, as time passed these subscribers to "Psychic Studies" lost interest. I judge, as copies of Morton's exposition regarding Franklin was not to be traced as to a single copy in any Boston or state public library, although "Bigelow" is available. Both were very earnest men and genuine Franklin adherents.
Thus, dear reader, it becomes obvious that the terrific prophecy of Benjamin Franklin was too much for those who took charge of the papers of this patriotic founder, but fortunately we have the above unimpeachable evidence to support the authentication of the Franklin statement.
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Further Comments on the Views of Benjamin
Franklin Towards the Jews
(The following is part of an article by Judge E. N. Rogers of Stroudsburg, Pa. written for the Broom newspaper of December 5th, 1949 answering an article by the famed historian Prof. Charles A. Beard, which was written in an effort to characterize the Franklin Prophecy on the Jews as a "forgery."
In this article Judge Rogers answers Dr. Beard by quoting from other letters written by Franklin which are critical of the Jews and can be located and documented.)
The article follows: STROUDSBURG, Penn. But to return to the apocryphal Franklin prophecy which is quite in line with his known sentiments, as Dr. Beard could have easily discovered by an examination of Franklin's published letters.
Does existing and easily available evidence tend to establish that, as Dr. Beard avers, Franklin's well known liberality extend to a high regard, or even tolerance of the predatory Jew?
Is it probable that both Dr. Beard and his scholarly assistants in their delving into diligent Franklinana did overlook Albert Henry Smyth's The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, published in 1907, in ten volumes? However this may be, some months ago Dr. Beard's attention was directed to the two letters addressed to John Adams by Franklin in 1781. These express sentiments quite in accord with those attributed to Franklin in the apocryphal prophecy.
Writing on November 26th, 1781, to John Adams, Franklin said:
"I think that the keeping us out of the possession of 50,000 pounds sterling worth of goods for securing the payment of a demand for damages, is not only dishonorable treatment, but a monstrous injustice.
"It seems to me that it is principally with John Neufville we have to do, and although, I believe him to be as much of a Jew as any in Jerusalem, I did not expect that, with so many and such constant professions of friendship for the U.S. with which he loads all his letters, he would attempt to enforce his demands by a proceeding so abominable. We have our hands in a lion's mouth, but if Neufville is a lion, I am a bear, and I think I can hug him until he lets go. His proposition, when I first saw him, of terms on which he would borrow money for us, stamped his character on my mind with an impression so deep that it is not yet effaced."
And within a month, viz December 14th, 1781 to Adams:
"I was led to understand that it would be agreeable to these gentlemen, if in acknowledgement of their zeal for our cause and great services in securing this loan, they would be made by some law of Congress the general consignees of America to receive and sell upon commission in the different ports of the nations, all the produce of America that should be sent by our merchants to Europe. I remark upon the extravagance and impossibility of this proposition. By this time, I fancy your Excellency is satisfied in supposing J. de Neufville was as much a Jew as any in Jerusalem, since Jacob was not content with the percents but took the whole of his brother's, Essau's, birthright--and his posterity did the same by the Canaanites, and cut their throats into the bargain, which I do not think Neufville has the least inclination to do by us while he can get anything by our being alive."
Here is Franklin twice intruding superfluous denigration of the Jewish race and in a tenor quite in accord with the apocryphal prophecy. Neufville is dishonorable, monstrously unjust, his demands abominable, his character indelibly stamped by his propositions, and hypocritical professions; his predatory rapacity aimed to secure a monopoly of our commerce and he desists from cutting our throats so long as he can get anything by our being alive.
And this Neufville is twice portrayed as a typical Jew, "as much a Jew as any in Jerusalem". And still the eminent historian, Charles A. Beard, with ineffable complacency and apparent satisfaction, states: "I cannot find a single original source that gives the slightest justification for believing that the 'prophecy' is anything more than a barefaced forgery. Not a word have I discovered in Franklin's letters and papers expressing such sentiments against the Jews as are ascribed to him by the Nazis--American and German."
Some might indeed infer that Dr. Beard was more solicitous to whitewash the Jews, to cloak their rapacious proclivities, than he is to discover the truth. Some support for such inference, for his pro-Jewish solicitude, appears in his reference to the German-American; his distortion, by wresting a sentence from Franklin's letter to Peter Collinson, 1753, from its context. Dr. Beard says: "the only racial immigration which Franklin feared was the influx of Germans. He wrote in 1753: 'Not being used to liberty they know not how to make modest use of it', yet he did not propose to set up a bar against them."
It appears from a memorial to the Council of Censors, by the Philadelphia Jews, December 3rd, 1784, that up to that time at-least the Jews were excluded from important and honorable arts of the rights of free citizenship; that the Jews were seeking to have a convention called for the purpose of revising the State Constitution to remove their disabilities which were due to the tenth section of the Frame of Government. This included: I do not acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration. No further or other religious test shall ever hereafter be required of any civil officer or magistrate in this state.
Under color of seeking an asylum, the ubiquitous and parasitic Jew came to America.
At the time Franklin wrote, his incidence was but one in twelve-hundred and fifty; today he is one in seventeen. The Jew encountered definite religious qualifications established which entailed a recognition of the Christian faith, and which, were in accord with the sentiments of the majority.
These restrictions and with them the Christian faith, the Jew sought to undermine, to abolish. And he began an agitation for an emasculation of the Frame of Government which barred him from an elective Assembly. Thus early in our history and while still an insignificant minority did the Ishmaelite and usurer aim to insinuate himself into our Legislature. From small beginnings the Jews have insensibly encroached upon, subverting our traditions, institutions, corrupting our morals, and, with his Federal Reserve system, infamously plundered us. To all of this racial plotting Dr. Beard is apparently blind. He even says that the phraseology of the apocryphal Franklin prophecy is not that of the eighteenth century, nor the language that of Franklin, although it never pretended to be the latter.
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