THE FRANKLIN PROPHECY
Recorded by Charles CoteworthPinckney
Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787

(This prophecy, by Benjamin Franklin,was made in a "CHIT CHAT AROUND THE
TABLE DURING INTERMISSION,"at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of
1787. This statementwas recorded in the dairy of Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney, a delegatefrom South Carolina.)

"I fully agree with General Washington, that we mustprotect this young
nation from an insidious influence and impenetration.The menace, gentlemen,
is the Jews.

"In whatever country Jews have settled in any greatnumber, 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 its restrictions;have built up a state within the state; and
when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in
the case of Spain and Portugal.

"For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that
they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But
gentlemen, did the world give it tothem in fee simple, they would at once
find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and
vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves.
Theymust subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

"If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their Constitution,
in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here 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 substance, while they will be in the
counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not
exclude Jews for alltime, your children will curse you in your graves.

"Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born wherethey will nor 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 Constitutional Convention."

-Benjamin Franklin, 1787,at The Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania