Efforts to Involve the United States in War with Mexico: Speech of Hon. J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, March 2, 1927 |
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Page 137 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 130 - ... if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people ; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning ; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
Page 130 - But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Page 119 - The Religion of the Mexican Nation is, and will perpetually be, the Roman Catholic Apostolic. The nation will protect it by wise and just laws, and prohibit the exercise of any other whatever.
Page 12 - Every one is free to embrace the religion of his choice and to practice all ceremonies, devotions or observances of his respective creed, either in places of public worship or at home, provided they do not constitute an offense punishable by law.
Page 130 - O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Page 116 - Tell us we are Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen afterwards; of course we are. Tell us, in the conflict between the church and the civil government we take the side of the church; of course we do. Why, if the government of the United States were at war with the church, we would say tomorrow, To hell with the government of the United States; and if the church and all the governments of the world...
Page 32 - Therefore as a pledge of our concern for our fellow Knights of Columbus of Mexico and of our determination to pursue relentlessly our campaign for the eradication of these evils at our own doorsteps, fomented and approved by the official action of our State Department, we hereby authorize our Supreme Board of Directors to assess our membership to the extent of one million dollars for a campaign of education, to the end that the politics of Soviet...
Page 135 - It is good for us to be here in England. It is yours, right reverend fathers, to subjugate and subdue, to bend and to break the will of an imperial race, the will which, as the will of Rome of old, rules over nations and peoples, invincible and inflexible.
Page 116 - She has the right of perpetuating the union of Church and state. "She has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all others.