It is very ironic to see this vicious editorial, since Bertha Levy Ochs, the Mother of the future publisher of the New York Times, was an ardent and loyal supporter of the Confederacy. Her son Adolph Ochs bought the New York Times in 1896.
As recounted by the renowned historian Robert Rosen, in his authoritative book The Jewish Confederates, her brother served in the Confederate army, and she smuggled medicine into the South to help the Confederates overcome their severe shortages of such supplies:
There is a family story that Bertha pushed her baby carriage, which contained contraband material hidden under one of the little Ochs boys, across the river from Cincinnati to Kentucky, to the Confederates. Adolph Ochs recalled in later years that "Mother gave Father a lot of trouble in those days."
According to their granddaughter, Bertha's smuggling drugs to the Confederates came to the attention of of the Union authorities and a warrant was issued for her arrest. As a loyal Union officer, {her husband] Julius was able to have the charges dismissed.
In 1928, The Confederate Veteran magazine noted that "for a Mother of Israel to defy her husband and an entire army was no mean assertion of militant feminism in those days."
Ironically, the family moved to Tennessee in 1964, one of the states affected by Union General Ulysses Grant's infamous General Order Number 11, expelling all Jews from the Union-occupied states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi within 24 hours, which was eventually rescinded by President Lincoln.
Bertha was a charter member of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of he United Daughters of the Confederacy; she died in 1908, and her coffin, as she requested, was draped with a Confederate flag.
I wonder of the NYTimes considers her one of those vicious racists it refers to in its editorial.
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