In 1864, Private Eugene Henry Levy of the Confederate Army objected to the radical suggestion that Negroes be utilized in the war effort and be freed for this assistance. "The slaves," he said, "are in their proper sphere as they are at present situated within the boundaries of the Confederacy."108
104 Thirty Years of My Life on Three Continents (London, 1890), vol. I, pp. 13-36.
105 (New York, 1909), pp. 15-16; see also his Four Years in Rebel Capitals (Mobile, 1890), p. 370.
we "Writers of Anonymous Articles in The Farmer's Register by Edmund Ruffin," Journal of Southern History, vol. XXIII (1957), pp. 90-102; Richmond in By-Gone Days (Richmond, 1946), pp. 354-355; letter, Samuel Mordecai to G. W. Mordecai, Dec. 17, 1860, Mordecai Mss., Duke University Library.
107 Quoted in Clement Eaton, Freedom of Thought in the Old South (Durham, 1940), p. 232.
108 MM, vol. Ill, pp. 308-309.
Opinions of Jews about Slavery
After the war was over, some Southern Jews still believed that slavery had been a necessary foundation of human society. Eleanor H. Cohen, the daughter of Dr. Philip Melvin Cohen of Charleston, said in the innocent selfishness of young maidenhood :
I, who believe in the institution of slavery, regret deeply its being abolished. I am accustomed to have them wait on me, and I dislike white servants very much.109