Letter from Benjamin Nathan to Isaac Leeser;December 11, 1864 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title: Letter from Benjamin Nathan to Isaac Leeser;December 11, 1864
Author: Benjamin Nathan
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 11 December 1864
Location(s): New York City; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 1 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).; Letter
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3zk56651/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3zk56651
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: Nathan Benjamin
Leeser Papers
New York Decr. 11th 1864.
Rev I. Leeser
My dear Sir
The attention of a number of influential members of the various congregations was called to the proceedings of a meeting held in your city last month, for the purpose of amending the constitution of the United States so as to disfranchise the Jewish Community. After a full interchange of views as to the probability of congress recommending the amendment, it was unanimously adopted, that the most powerful argument that we could use to defeat the plan of the meeting was for the Jews to be Silent, yet watchful, & it is my dear Sir the object of this letter to ask of you, if you coincide in this view, that at the present time you will refrain from publishing or writing any article on the subject in your Occident, as by agitation it might give an importance to the subject which as yet it has not assumed.
Trusting you are in the enjoyment of health
I am my dear Sir
Yours very Truly
Benj Nathan
Identifier: LSDCBx2FF11_61
Date: 1864-12-11