This broadside (9" x 12") announces the formation of a committee in Baltimore to address the Mortara Affair. The text calls for a letter to be drafted and sent to the President of the United States, urging him to join with France and other European powers in condemning the actions of the Papal States. The broadside likely dates to October or November 1858. The image shows a printed text, the details of which are not fully legible in the provided image. A manuscript draft of the committee meeting is noted as existing in separate records (2006.12.26.03445).
Subject: Papal States
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This is a first edition of a play, published in 1860 by Bloch Israelite Office in Cincinnati, Ohio, that dramatizes the infamous Mortara Affair. The Mortara Affair involved the abduction of a six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, by Papal authorities in 1858 because he had been secretly baptized as a Catholic infant. The play explores the religious and political ramifications of this event, which sparked international outrage and protests. The bookplate of the Hamilton Hebrew Sabbath School is present in this copy.