The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-04

It is not necessary for me to review in all article of this character, the public career of this remarkable man. It is a matter of record in the annals of three governments and will doubles become one day in the future a valuable historic compilation.
 While MT. Benjamin was a Jew by birth, I am of the opinion that he was not Orthodox in the faith of Abraham. Mir. Toombs of Georgia, who became quite jealous of MT. BenpjamIn's infiu- ence with the President, used to speak of him in his characteristic manner as "a pork eating Jew" Of his religious | convictions know nothing. He was un- | doubtedly a man of noble and generous impulses. sincere in his friendship and devoted in his service of the Confederacy. Ills strong attachment to the people of the South and especially of Louisiana, was made manifest to me in his letters from London. When l was preparing the ' manuscript of the Life and Times" of MT. Memminger. his longest associate colleague in the Cabinet of MT. Davis, | received several letters from MT. Ben- Jamin, then 6 Queens counsellor with his office in the Temple at London. These letters, like all he wrote or spoke are admirable compositions. In one of these
 
 ing ''the home of his heart." His hand writing, like his diction, was exceptional ly good. The letters are well formed and effeminately small. In this respect he was like Senator Hill of Georgia, whose hand writing was, as all men and women of cultivation should be, distinct and easily read.
 In one of his letters Mr. Benjamin re- marks: Ut was in my judgment ex- pressed at the time, 8 mistake to have moved the seat of Government from Montgomery to Richmond
 Upon the downfall of the Confederacy MT. Benjamin escaped the vigilance of the Federal scouts, who were seeking to arrest him, and in an open boat crossed to Havana, where he placed himself un- der the protection of the British flag, un- der which he had been born. Arrived in London, his capital consisted chiefly of his intellect and of his extraordinary ac- quirements. For some time he supported himself by contributing to The London Times a series of articles on the current topics of the day. During the time he was preparing the manuscript of his work on Sales" a law book that SUD- piled want in the literary jurisprudence of the English speaking nations, and that upon it's publication at once advanced
 
 fession in London. Within three years from the date of his arrival in the me- tropolis of England, he was admitted to seat on the wool sack in the high Court of Chancery, and became Queens Counsellor, advanced over hundreds of English barristers, who for many years had been waiting for this distinguished preferment.
 At the time of his death there was no member of the English or of the Amer ican bar who enjoyed his large profes- sional income, or who was more gener- ally known throughout the civilized world, among lawyers of attainment, than Judah P. Benjamin, c. C., of London.
 Much more 1t would please me to write of this eminent jurlst, statesman and, I believe, sincere patriot. This I may do at another time, and in some other form. fear now that this article has already been protracted beyond the limit of your space.