where did you get that....sounds like CI lite.
Quotes from the early parts of this thread.
In keeping with the thread, since we're speaking of quotes, here's one that insults northern Christians AND YANKEES (my only relative in that war was one of those)!
Senator Ben Wade of Ohio accused him [Judah Benjamin] of being an "Israelite in Egyptian clothing" [for his defence of the South]on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Benjamin answered,
"It is true that I am a Jew, and when my ancestors were receiving their Ten Commandments from the immediate Deity, amidst the thundering and lightnings of Mt. Sinai, the ancestors of my opponent were herding swine in the forests of Great Britain."