Subject: Unknown Subject

Newspaper clipping of a speech by Lord John Russell regarding the admission of Jews to Parliament, published in the *Daily Advertiser* on January 11, 1848. The clipping includes the text of Lord Russell's speech arguing for the removal of civil and political disabilities affecting Jewish subjects, specifically mentioning Mr. Rothschild's election to Parliament and the need to amend the parliamentary oath.

This letter is a response to an editorial published in the *American Hebrew* titled "the Mouthpiece of American Israelites." The author takes issue with the editorial's tone and its denouncement of something as "a sham and without foundation." The author argues that the editorial lacks full information and calm judgment, and suggests that a board of editors should exercise more wisdom. The author discusses whether American Israelites should leave correspondence with the State Department regarding Jewish wrongs in foreign countries to the Board of Delegates, or if every society, union, or individual should have the right to address the Secretary of State. The letter further argues that the government of the United States should not abandon its non-intervention policy in other nations' affairs, and that the Secretary of State should not be harassed with excited papers based on wild rumors. The letter also defends the Board of Delegates' work and its long history of handling such correspondence.