Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-12-10
: The Abduction of Mortara's Child.

e Ine ABDUCTION or W0rtaraS Child.
By the City of Baltimore we have further
accounts cf feeling expressed by European
journals concerning the abduction of the Jewish
boy AIortara. The following extracts give an
idea of the excitement which has been created
by this unfeeling transaction.
The manner IN which the nhuman act is ex-
cused, or rather smothered in pile of learn-
CO arguments, is worthy of the paImicst days
of Jesuitism
ssThe case Of the Jewish boy Mortara, who
was abducted by the Roman Catholics, still
occupied considerable attention aud letter
ftom Turin says that Count Cavour had directed
the Sardinian Charge Affairs at Rome to re.
mons,tate with the Roman Government in the
matter.
''The Giornale Oficiale di Roma at length
contains note in reply 10 the outcry. Of the
press of Europe against the abduction of the
boy Mortara. THIS manifesto of the Papal
Court is nothing hut q restatcment OF the doe
trihes of The Uniyers. The following is the
whole of il:
':Thc Universe of October sl publishes
AUtIE dGNlrAEbttA hIttCAt DA IdtnEF
ID which, apropos of an event which has led to
much noise on the part Of the irreliglous press,
it is demonstrated that Na,uralism has taken
possession Of most minds 1t shows that many
Christians, having lost the true spirit of the
church to which they belong, manifest, on the
contrary, great anxiety, not for the sovereign
domination of Christ, of whom they are nem.
bers by baptism, bat fer the authority of the
natural family not for tue rights Of the
church, but for the Pagan prejudices Of modern
society, and those idcas OF personal liberty
which seem 10 them conquest TO which every
! thing else IS 70 be sacrificed. phey consent to
lock upon faith and Christiau practices only
through the perverted medium of Naturalist
prejudces."
'.The Gazette del Pcpolo publishes private
letter giving an account of the journey of young
Alortara from Bologna to Rome, from which it
appears that his conversion to Christianity, is
not ny any means so far advanced as was sup
posed. 1t is stated thas lie child did nothing
bat cry all the way, and all for his father and
mother. The sergeant, under whose charge he
was, having endeavored to force ehaplet into
his hand, with little cross at the end of it,
the boy did all he could to reject it, crying
that he wanted the name of God, such as Is
worn by other Jewish children. The father, in
one of the visits which he was allowed to pay
bis son, told him of the hopes he had that the
Pope would relent, and restore the boy to his
parents, at which the boy expressed the great
est joy. The letter concludes with an account
of the journey of father and mother to Rome,
of indiguities they were exposed to in endea-
yoring TO obtain audiences, and of the stories
which had ham stu1io,ely eproad tha
populaee regarding them, viz, that it was their
intention to go and murder their own child
in consequence of which their yery lives were
in danger in passing through the streets of
Alatri, whittier the boy had been conveyed"
The New York Tablet makes most lame
and impotent attempt to ridicule ''an Israelte
publication" which calls its attention to certain
official documents and, as is usual with the
organs of the Roman Church, endeayors to
throw doubt upon the evidences produced in
this case. This is perfectly in keeping with
the practices of that hierarchy; and it would
not be surprising if we should shortly find them
denying tha. such a thing ever occurred. We
doubt if they will gain much BY such course
at this time. The days when bare faced de-
mails of well-established facts would serve to
create doubts concerning them, have passed
On this side Of the water, at least. it would be
better policy to acknowledge and condemn the
act for we believe that, in OF out of the
Catholic Church, in this country, but few will
be found SO stupid that they will be satisfied
with more evasions or den;als or SO lost to the
humane spirit Of Christianity as to sanction the
forcible abduction of child from its parents,
upon any pretence which ingenious priests may
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