Letter from ElRm Gregor[?] to Isaac Leeser;October 05, 1852

Title: Letter from ElRm Gregor[?] to Isaac Leeser;October 05, 1852
Author: ElRm Gregor[?]
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 5 October 1852
Location(s): New York City; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 3 page(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3hx16b09/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hx16b09
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: New York Oct 5 1852
Rev Isaac Leeser D D
Dear Sir
On opening your last No. of the Oc. I find an article respecting a Mr. E. Marcussohn, ac-companied by a letter purporting to be written by him to the Editor of the Jew-ish Chronicle of New York. Affecting to deny the statement made in the August No. by Rev J C. Davis of Montgomery
Allow me to say here is disclosed a curious affair. In the first place no letter like that in your paper was ever received by the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, that is curious and in the second place, either Mr E. Marcussohn was or was not the person that presided over the Jewish congregation in montgomery Ala. and to whom reference is made in the Aug No of the Jewish Chronicle If he is, then I shall undertake to prove to the Jewish and Christian public the following facts from indisputable evidence
1. That he sought instruction of our mis-

ionary in Montgomery and of the respected clergy men there of his own accord that on the 4th of July last in the presence of a number of his people he publicly declared his conviction that Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah—that whereupon his people become furious and refused to pay him his just claim and that he was obliged to leave his home and that he found an asylum with Rev Mr Oliver a Christian minister—who also advanced him $70 to pay his debt among his people. That he it was generally known in Montgomery that he had publically ab-jured Judaism and embraced Christian-ity. That on application by his friends for aid the society offered him a liberation as miss-ionary to the Jews that he accepted at that he went to Charleston had an interview with Rev Mr Bernheim—received through him from the Treasurer his salary for August and September. That he was located in a city not far from Charleston— or else if he is the same man. One or both of us have been deceived in the person. Either Mr Marcussohn (or Markesson) from Mont-gomery ? C. South Carolina was not the minister of the Jewish cong in Mont'ry

or else the man that called on you and whom you represent to be such, was not. Now if he be not Mr Marcussohn mentioned in the Jewish Chronicle a game is commenced in your paper at which I am resolved to expose.
You or Mr Marcussohn is in a terri-ble dilemma. Either he has been guilty of moral enormities which render him unworthy of the confidence of any man or else there is unblushing inequity on your part. In either case I shall not spare nor give any quarter.
Either he has been attempting to impose upon the christian community or else you are attempting to impose upon Jewish community.
You have fairly begun a difficulty which I shall take care you do not escape, or else he has, the whole matter will be brought to an issue very shortly.
I remain yours
ElRm Gregor?
I do not intent this for publication but to show you how matters stand—the truth most come out

The above text refers to Occident Volume 10 No. 7 pages 353 through 359. Click here to view.
Identifier: LSDCBx1FF9_66
Date: 1852-10-05

Part of Letter from ElRm Gregor[?] to Isaac Leeser;October 05, 1852

ElRm Gregor[?], “Letter from ElRm Gregor[?] to Isaac Leeser;October 05, 1852”, 1852-10-05, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69072