Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-11-25

| The MoRTARA CAsE.-The Jewish denomi-
nation generally in Europe and the United
States are in state of great excitement on ac-
count Of the abduction of the Mortara boy at
Bologna, and his baptism into the Latin church
The Jeacish Messenger of New York gives a
good deal of space to extracts from European
and American journals in relation to this mat
ter, and it is said that the Hebrews in that CITY
contemplate calling public meeting to express
their indignation at this case of what they call
chlld-steaing. The New York Fireman. Jour
nal, IN an article on the case says the Catholic
journals of Europe leave them in the dark as to.
how the boy came to be in the school at Rome.
instead of being in his fathers house in Bologna.
at the opening of this excitement, and adds
For our part we wish devoutly for the day-
when, over the whole earth, the theory of our
American civilization may be successfully re-
duced to practice, When religion may be CON-
sidered a thing too sacred and interior to the
being OF man to be forced by any material pow
er from without. For our part, also, we do not
like to see temporal government meeting
out one measure to one class, and another
to another class. We believe that the Jews
have as much natural right to circumcise a
Catholic child, without parental consent, as
Christians have to baptise a. Jew child. Our
idea of temporal government is, that it should
not keep a boy from his Jewish parents, except
under circumstances that, in converse case would
authorize Keeping boy from his Catholic par
ents.: Our whole mind and heart consents to
the canon of the Catholic Church. which forbids
the aptism>of any child against the parental
consent, as being against natural rights. But
this theory of independent harmony between the
temporal and spiritual powers is nowhere pro-
fessed except in the United States.
Sir Moses Montifore, President of the London
Committee Of the British Jews, has transmitted
to the Hebrew con gregations in this country, the
following statement of the ,sequestration of the
Mortara boy: - iat's6n
Statement --Signor..N Iomola Mortara Levi was
residing at Bologna with his wife and children.
In the year 1852 his son, about twelve months
old, was taken i'll with fever (verminosa) COM
mon to children in this country, but as the ct
tending doctor certifes, was not in danger of his
life; the servant IA Catholic fourteen years of
age, was advised by the grocer to baptise the
child she observed to him thatit was not right
to do So but the grocer replied there was no
harm IN IT. only, IN case OF the child dying, she
would, by. doing, secure him place in Para
disc, and he taught her how to do. Not any
more was known about it.
Last year another of the children was taken
i'll; the same was advised by woman neighbor
to baptise him, but she refused, although she had
all the opportunity of SO doing, the child being
often entrusted to her care and therefore he died
as a Jew. fE
After this, the servant being reproached byl
The said woman, she told her she was very clad
IF it; she regretted very much what she had
done some years ago, taking the grocer's advice;
and NOW she was t1unf1tu ,rnars af eso ell