Mr. Benjamin, it is understood, will be a candidate for a seat
in the C. S. Senate. And I have learned from several members of the Louisiana
legislature that he will be defeated. They charge him with hob-nobbing too much
with Northern friends; and say that he still retains membership in several
clubs in New York and Boston.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 89
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