The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-10-23
! FREMONT, SANDUSKY COUNTY. OHIO; FRIDAY
4OIuiraI.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE
JEWS.
Important Letter from an EN-
inent Hebrew LaWYer---He
RenOUnces his Opposition TO
General Grant.

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QUINCY, Ill, Oct. 9.-Adolph Moses,
Esq, an able Jewish lawyer of this city,
and who was selected to preside over
the national organization cf B'nia Berth
at New York, in July last, a Democrat,
and recently an editorial writer for the
Democratic paper here, is out this
morning with the following letter in
favor of Grant:
"EDToR HERALD: Your article in
yesterdays issue commenting upon my
political status, in opposition to the un-
authorized statements of the Clayton
Standard and the Springfield Journal,
claims from me a response. While, as
a private citizen, not having since this
campaign, engaged in purely political
public discussions, demur to the right
of any one to catechise me upon my
private convictions, yet l feel no hesit-
ancy to remove any and all cavil about
my position.
'To the Jews in this country a side
issue was presented in this campaign,
which was judged of sufficient import
ance to control their political senti-
ments. The indignation against order
No. IL is natural with a sensitive peo-
pie, who have been long suffering, and
to whom the free spirit of inquiry, the
produce of our era, is gradually doing
Justice.
zone of the first to give expression
to this natural feeling, regardless of the
political weight this issue might exer-
else, l indited nom de plume Commu-
nication to the Herald in the early part
of the campaign, in which l unreserved-
" condemned order No. IL and It's
author. In the same article l pointed
the Democratic press to the fact that
the issue thus far. had been Of but little
comfort to the Jews, and that the prin-
ciple would have to be debated and de-
Tended in due manly spirit, and not
with the sole purpose of carrying votes
from the Jewish citizens, who, like all
others, can discern correct distinction
between the avowal of a manly principle
and the hollow lip service in the inter-
est of party. This indignation, famed
of course by the force of political dis
cussion, was leading several communi-
ties-St. Louis and Memphis-into an
improper manner of expression by hold
ing Jewish indignation meetings,
which fact needed immediate correc-
ton. The public letter of Henry Green
abOn, Esq, of Chicago, a Republican in
principle, and one of my personal
friends, gave me the welcome oppOr-
tunity to review the whole question
from a purely social stand point, as you
have done me the justice TO acknowl-
edge, and as then declared to the editor
of the Tribune, who had assailed me on
policical grounds in consequence of it.
This letter is public property, and as
such you can use it.
81 have since corresponded with Gen.
Grant on this subject, and l have
enough evidence within my personal
knowledge to satisfy me that the burn
ing but just spirit of indignation must
give way to the equally sacred feeling
of maguanimity, which must needs
force itself on all intelligence whose
convictions are not debased by the al
lies of prejudice. For while it lies in
the power of any one to do wrong act,
it requires higher type of manhood
to make a reparation. While 1 was
willing to abide my public declaration
on the question, owing to the impFo-
priety Of having this acknowledgment
published Just now, and its effect ex-
plgined away in the heat of partisan
debate, l am unwilling now, since 1 am
forced To those public statements, to ad-
here to my former determination to op-
pose General Grant on this sole issue.
81 urge no further action upon others
whom l have addressed IN a different |
strain, because they are, as public
fact, unaware of reparation; but, as a
private citizen, l have satisfied myself
hat 1 may consistently follow my pOlit-
cal inclination without the oblique
'orce of this side-issue, whose merits
have had the fullest discussion.
"With many regrets at parting with
political friends whose compaionship I
nave heretofore shared, in a somewhat
lesultory manner, yet must give heed |
% the conviction forced upon me. 1
must declare against the promptings of
ormer geographical sympathies, by the
nexorable logic of events, that the best
interests of our country are subserved |
oy the election of General Grant, and l |
lave no difidence to declare it to the
community, and to you who have been
rood enough to award me a position in
iociety which demands from me honesty
# motive and conviction.
"Very respectfully,
L