Two newspaper articles: "Board of Delegates of American Israelites" and "Grant's Order Expelling the Jews".This record contains two newspaper articles. The first is a report of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites held in New York on January 8, 1863, where resolutions were adopted protesting General Grant's expulsion of Jews from the Department of Tennessee. The second article discusses the cotton speculation involving General Grant's father, Jesse Grant, and the Mack Brothers, suggesting that the expulsion order might have been motivated by the brothers' refusal to settle a partnership account.