Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Jun 23, 2017
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Newspaper. Gazette of the United States. Vol. II, No. 44.
Contains exchange of letters between Moses Seixas and President George Washington. pp. 589-592. Foxed. Unbound Folio.
September 11th, New York: 1790.
Reported on page 592 is an: "Address of the Master, Wardens, and Brethren of King David's Lodge to George Washington, President of the United States of America." This address was given by Moses Seixas (1744-1809), Master of the Newport Masonic Lodge, as well as president of the Newport Hebrew Congregation. His address was designed to welcome President Washington as a fellow Masonic-Brother to Rhode Island. The newspaper also records Washington's acknowledgment of the welcome, as well as his solemn pledge to uphold the principles upon which the Fraternity is founded.
A month earlier Seixas had penned a letter to Washington with the celebrated phrase that the President subsequently endorsed: "To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
See J.L. Blau and S.W. Baron, The Jews of the United States 1790-1840, A Documentary History, Vol. I (1963), pp. 8-10.
