(This prophecy, by Benjamin Franklin, was made at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787. This statement was recorded in the dairy of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate from South Carolina.)
"I fully agree with General Washington, that we     must protect this young nation from an insidious influence     and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
    
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number,     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 to them 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. They must 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 all time, your children will curse you in your     graves.
Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they 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 thou 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
 
