The American Catholic Historical Researches: 1885, Volumes 2-5Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin, William Leo Joseph Griffin Martin I.J. Griffin, 1885 - Catholics |
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Page 5 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment, that a British parliament should ever consent to establish in that country, a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Page 63 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said John Alden, 2nd, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses the day and year above written.
Page 83 - As morality and piety, rightly grounded on evangelical principles, will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay in the hearts of men the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as the knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society by the institution of the public worship of the Deity, and of public instruction in morality and religion...
Page 33 - States which still restrict them ; when we solicit the protection of Heaven over our common country, we neither omit nor can omit recommending your preservation to the singular care of Divine Providence, because we conceive that no human means are so available to promote the welfare of the United States as the prolongation of your health and life, in which are included the energy of your example, the wisdom of your counsels, and the persuasive eloquence of your virtues.
Page 32 - But the delay has furnished us with the opportunity, not merely of presaging the happiness to be expected under your administration, but of bearing testimony to that which we* experience already. It is your peculiar talent, in war and in peace, to afford security to those who commit their protection into your hands. In war, you shield them from the ravages of armed hostility ; in peace, you establish public tranquillity, by the justice and moderation, not less than by the vigor of your government.
Page 109 - ... the most discouraging distress, you created unforeseen resources, raised as it were, from the ground, hosts of intrepid warriors, and provided every vulnerable point with ample means of defence. To Him we trace that instinctive superiority of your mind, which at once rallied around you universal confidence...
Page 30 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
Page 109 - ... of your grateful country ; of which you will permit us to present you a pledge, in this wreath of laurel, the prize of victory, the symbol of immortality. The next is a speedy and honorable termination of the bloody contest, in which we are engaged. No one has so efficaciously labored as you, General, for the acceleration of that blissful period : may we soon reap that sweetest fruit of your splendid and uninterrupted victories.
Page 100 - Limits aforesaid (Three full and clear fifth Parts of all Royal Mines, free from all Deductions and Reprisals for digging and refining the same...