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The Mortara Case...



Item # 683864

December 22, 1858

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Dec. 22, 1858  Page 3 has: "The Mortara Case" which concerns the Papal States' seizure of a six-year-old boy named Edgardo Mortara from his Jewish family in Bologna, on the basis of a former servant's testimony that she had administered an emergency baptism to the boy when he fell ill as an infant.
Also on page 3: "Jewish Disabilities in North Carolina" as well as; "The Gila Gold Mines" in California.
Four pages, irregular at the spine, good condition. The folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Category: Pre-Civil War