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The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Boy Mortara. (search)
ts nurse for baptism in the Romish Church, and afterward the Church seized it and refused to deliver it up to its parents on the grounds of its being a Christian, and must not therefore be returned to Judaism. The recent conference at Geneva brought out the fact that the servant had admitted that the child was not baptized. Ridiculous as the pretence was, it had so much effect in Home that no threats or persuasion have thus far been able to obtain the surrender of the stolen child. Sir Culling Eardley stated that the object of detaining the child now is not, as had been maintained, to sustain the discipline of the Church, but to conceal the fact that the Pope had been deceived. The Emperor of the French had recently stated, through his Secretary, M. Mocquard, to the President of the Universal Israelitish Alliance at Paris, that he had no objection whatever to the presentation to King Victor Emanuel of a memorial in favor of the liberation of Mortara. He hoped the Emperor woul