Speech of Hon. David S. Kaufman of Texas on The Slavery Question. Delivered in the House of Representatives.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Blair and Rives

Washington, [D.C.]

1847

Born in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, to German Jewish parents, David Spangler Kaufman (1813-1851) came to the Republic of Texas at age twenty-four after graduating Princeton and became a respected attorney, orator, soldier. Upon the admission of Texas as a State into the Union in 1846, Kaufman was the first man from the new state to be elected and take his seat in the U. S. Congress. David Kaufman’s views were pro-slavery. Remarkably, his brother, Daniel Kaufman (1818-1902), was an abolitionist whose home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. “It is hard to imagine how the relationship of these two brothers existed considering their strong and opposite convictions.” www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aagriots/TX/kaufman/railroad.htm.