CHAPTER XXIII

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INTERVENTION IN DAMASCUS. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SWISS DISCRIMINATION.

The Damascus Affair; the first occasion on which the Jews of the United States requested the government to intercede in behalf of persecuted Jews in another country――John Forsyth’s instructions to American representatives in Turkey, in which those requests were anticipated――A discrimination in a treaty with Switzerland to which President Fillmore objected, and which Clay and Webster disapproved――The case of a Jewish-American citizen in Neufchatel――Newspaper agitation, meetings and memorials against the Swiss treaty――President Buchanan’s emphatic declaration, and Minister Fay’s “Israelite Note” about the Jews of Alsace――Question is settled by the emancipation of the Swiss Jews.

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=THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FORMATIVE PERIOD.=

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