The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-11-30
/ III Z DISPATC III.
TUESDAY EOkAING....... ANOvEMBKR 30 1855
THE MoRTARI AHDrCTIoS cIsr~sr rr-
MINT on THE BOYS MOrHER-MEMORIAL
TO THE PRESIDENT.

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| aud some months.) when after repeated solicita-
tions she was permitted to see him on the llth Of
October:
This morning me and my husband want tos.hs
Catechumeus, aud they told us that The rscctor
and my dear child had just arrived We mounted
the ngnt Of steps, and very soon Efer that we had
our darling Edgar In our arms As for na ti..s
| ed him over and over again, weeping and aob
bins; whist he answered my kissos and embraces
with MS whole soul; greatly excited aud shedding
| teafs' the little fellow struggled between his
tear OF those who have him in their power md his
immense love for US; but this at last triumphed
lie cried out quite loud that be wanted to no
pon,e S.h his parents to bis brothers and sisters.
| ! toid h'm 70 remember he was born Jew as we
were, aud that 1t wac bis duty always to remain
! one. He answered. "Yes, dear mamma, shall
| always take care to say the Shenan every day.
l added that we had come to Rome TO see him
again, and that should not leave tire city with.
/ Gut him, at which he appeared glad and happy
All this took place in the presence of the rector
and of his brother and sisters.
! The committee oppointed by the meeting of the
Hebrews in Philadelphia, have prepared a memo.
rial ON the subject of the abduction. After
reciting the facts of the Mortara case, the memo.
rial says
In Mortara the abstract rights of man havs been
| violated; aud the mental distress of his parents
their sngush and their tears appeal to ali liberal
and free people to redress the insnlt which has
been offered to humanity In the person of the little
boy for WHOM We now ask your kind Offices. We
| are well aware that the United States never do
nor should assume the right to interfere in the
internal relations of the other iands we also know
| that 1t may be said, that person living in the
Roman States must submit to their laws however
| arbitrary and cruel they may be. Still we trust,
| and firmly believe, that the Roman Government
would listen respectfully to any suggestion coming
fir, the President of the United States especially
| If You would represent to his holiness, the Pope.
that the universal sentiments, not alone OF Israeli
ties, but Of Protesauts alss. Of the United States
condemns an act which isso unreasonable, unjust
nj and shnft I'M 49,
anything else, retard the progresss Of Catholicty
in the Union, where every bosom sweels at the
thought Of liberty, and where the tyranny of
church, whatever may be its name. is no less odi
Gus than the worst arbitrary deeds of the most
, deteeted crowned heads.
I We would therefore respectfully request Of you
to Instruct che Minister OF the United States at the
fCourt of Rome, to ask, as an act of grace towards
the Government and people Of all persuasions Of
this country, TO restore the boy, Edgar Mortara TO
his parents, to be educated as they may deem pro.
per, without coerciGg their will or Offering any un
due inducement to change their orig na inte ntion
CT reering him as an Israelite.
| Secondly, to obtain n the same manner a reyoa
| cation of the canon of the Roman Catholic Church.
which empowers its adherents to administer ban.
tism under certain circumstances, or at least to
| declare such an involuntary conversion null and
| void, when the parents of children or adults them
selves thereafter refuse to rccognizs baptism as va
lid when it was ad ministered at time they were
| unconscious; under the full pursuasion that the
| head OF the Catholic Church cannot DESIRE in this
age OF progress to force persons TO become
| to his belief. by which it neither gain strength
| nor benefit these whom it thus holds within it's
| grasp.
The Philadelphia Evening Journal, referring to
| the secoud request in the above memorial. says:
| There certainly we should think, could DO no
| impropriety in respectfully urging the prayer;
yet We may remark here that Rome hardly
grant 1t without violating her integrity by a
cison of laws which lie at the basis OF her faith
| and noTer as a cnUrch. and which have baep on
forced for centuries. So far as understand the
| case, no such step as that named can be taken.
| even by the Pope himself without ca ling an
| Gcumenical council TO discuss the policy of re.
voking the original canon Of the Couuci OF Trent,
| which we suhjoin.
| "Wbosoeyer shall affirm that when these bap
| tised children grow up they to be asked
| whether they will confirm the promises made by
| their godfahers in their name, at their baptism,
and, that if they say they will not, thsy to be
left to their own choice, and not to be compelled
(oogendos, in the Latin,) in the meantime to lead
| q Christian lie by any other punishment than ex
| c'usion from the Eucharist and the other sacra-
ments, until they repent, let them be accursed"
| Secretary Cass, in the name of the President,
| ing the eGovernment at Washin gton TO make ap.
peal to Rome against the authorities at Bologna,
in the Mortara case:
DEPARTMENT OF SrArE,l
| Washington, November III, ISIS.
10 Mr. 4 Hart President qftte Congregation "ftckce
| jsTdet. Cherry Street, fhttadetphiG:
| Sir-l have r-ceiyed and submitted to the Presi
dent your letter Of the 18th inst. respecting the
alleged forclbie abduction from his parents of a
jewish child by the public authorities at Bologna
| IN the pspsl dominions, and ASKING some express
siODs OF condemnation On the part OF this Govern
ment
This occurrence took PLACE within the territory
OF an Independent poser, and With ut affecting the
| rights CT any American citizen. IL is lhe settled
policy of the United States to abstain frem all in
terfereI ce in the int rnal concerns Of the country
Certainly ,here is nothing in the circumstances of
tnis Case as they are reported which would impose
ed proper to adhere to the established principle
which has heretofore regulated its conduct in n-
tercourse with other nations am. sir, yeur obedi-
| ent servant, LiwIS CAsS.
IMPORTANT SuIr.-A heavy land suit 10 being
tried in the Circuit Court of Kauawha county,
Va, in which Messrs. Emile and Charles Dumas, Il.
Lacouture aud D'IIuc de Monsignon, are all suing
each other for a piece of land, of whic the Ka-
| pawha Star gives the following history:
1t appears that in the year 1881, Col. Jas Swan of
Boston, died in Paris France seized and Possessed
OF very large tracts o lands, lying and situated
u ha, Greenbrier. Bath. Tyler, Logan, Booae, and
| other counties west Of the Allegheny Mountains
virginia Tnat these tracts in The aggregate, con-
That after the death Of Col. swan, these lands be-
came forfeited to the Commonwealth. for non-pay
ment of taxes, emounting to soue $40 go. In the
| year 1885, il WAS III .ds known - the General As
Q. .mbiy of Virginia. that Col. swan nad rendered
service to the United States, in our Revolutionary
struggles with Great Britain, and had become in
| dsBed III large sums OF moaey, to officers in the
French army. his old companions in srns. ana has.
in his WILL direct his large landed estate
Ia Virginia should be sold to pay his creditors the
| money thus borrowed These facts being made
Known. the Legislature of Vlrginia very generously
ana u agnam 1usly the 10Th March, 1885, passed
an ACT Conveying all Of the isnas iorteired 10 the
mas in trust for the beneft of the credtors.f Jas
swan, which creditors were mostly Frenshnea, re-
| siding in France.
The litigan,s all claim to have bought the claims
tla
| tent, and are suing each other and Josiah Ran.
dalt-taat gentleman having a claim of $4,000
| against the land az trustee appointed by the Ka,
uawha Court. The suit will coon be decided, 40
the Star says:
On Friday last, the argum snts were concluded,
and the huge mass Of pspsrs. in French and Eng
h.h' together with the written srsuments Of sgd
pI,aied srsr@en,s Of Josiah Randall. ksq, were
tubnrted TO the Court for decision And the 18th OF
1aroery pe-r, as been red upon by the Court, to
rsnser decision in these important suits.
Trs SPANISH Forces AT CuRA.-The Paris core
respondent of the Lordcn Times writes on tn.
l2th:
Accounts from Cadiz inform Ms that the folio W.
Interpretations have been made nj that port to
reinforce the spanish garrison in the Island Of Gu
ha On the I7th OF October the sailing frigate Fer
rolana Of 80 guns and the corvette Isabel Segunda
of ~ grns. sailed for the Havana, having board
tho sailing frigate Peria, fitted up as transport,
and armed with six guns sailed Tor the came desti-
nation with $50 infantry. There remains in the
roaos ready sail at any moment the screw frigste
Petrcnita. the paddlewheei steamer Isabella La Ca
tolica and the trasuport corvette II rigalAnte.-
There are osD infantry and $40 marines 10 be en-
barked on board these three ships. These will COM
pste theexpeditisn TO force Of 2,o0 infantry and
500 marines"
DE.rH OF A VEsERABL. CLERGYMAN IN ENGLAND
The London Watchman announces the death ofths
Rev. John Hickline, the sioldsst Methodist preach
or in the word, and last survivor Of the Helpers
of John Wesley" He died on the 9th Of Novems
Der, and 1t il said Of him
He was in the7lst year os his ministry. and would