Still the Jews are going out of the country and returning at
pleasure. They deplete the Confederacy of coin, and sell their goods at 500 per
cent. profit. They pay no duty; and Mr. Memminger has lost hundreds of thousands
of dollars in this way.
The press everywhere is thundering against the insane policy
of permitting all who avow themselves enemies to return to the North; and I
think Mr. B. is beginning to wince under it. I tremble when I reflect that
those who made the present government, and the one to succeed it, did not
represent one-third of the people composing the inhabitants of the Confederate
States.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 88
