Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV

Mr. Seward to Mr. Josephs.

Department of State, Washington , December 3, 1863.

Sir: I have received your letter of the 25th ultimo, on the subject of persecutions of Israelites in Morocco. In reply, I have to express my regret and surprise that, in this comparatively enlightened age, any class of people in any country should be persecuted on account of their religious tenets. Mr. McMath, the United States consul at Tangier will be instructed to inquire into the matter, and if he shall find that you have been correctly informed, he will use all proper influence for the purpose of checking the proceeding complained of.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Henry Josephs, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, New York.