Memphis Daily Appeal
Tennessee
May 28, 1861
Moses Levy, an Israelite, was arrested on Sunday for having open his place of business and offering goods for sale on that day. Under our constitutional
obligations to allow entire freedom in religious matters, have we no right to compel a man to keep our sacred day as well as his own? If so, he has the same right to make us keep his day as well as ours if he had the power.