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Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e friars and nuns, and cutting their superb estates in pieces.It was Protestantism in the State, blindly destroying, but not build-ing up.* Juarez followed Comonfort, and the war prevailed yet more.Confiscations of convent property became general. Schools wereestablished without the control of the Church. The institutionsof friarhood and sisterhood were abolished, and the claims of theChurch, formerly loaned on the estates of the people, were declaredof none effect. As this claim covered almost all property, it was aproclamation of universal financial emancipation. The disruptionof Church and State was violently going forward. Had no relig-ious influence come in to build up a better Church and State, thatconflict would have resulted in the resubjugation of the State to * See Madame Calderon De La Barca, for animating descriptions of these in-stitutions at the height of their prosperity, hardly forty years ago. Her travelsare still the best description of the people and their pastimes.
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MEXICOS DELIVERANCE. 439 the Church, as has always been the case in France and Spain, and,but for the very active Protestantizing of Italy, would be the casethere also. The Church saw this, and took advantage of our civilwar to revive her fallen fortunes. Maximilian and Carlolta, twobigoted Papists, were imported and upheld by the arms of Napo-leon and Eugenie, the last the most bigoted of Papists, in order tobring the State again at the feet of the Church. Not Napoleon,but Pius IX., is the instigator of that war. He who alone of tem-poral sovereigns recognized our slave power as a nation, soughtto help that rebellion to succeed by getting up this rebellion in aneighboring state, and fostered that for the sake of making thistriumphant. He succeeded. The French army subdued the re-publican, and from Vera Cruz to Paso del Norte freedom in relig-ion and in government went down. Rome was mistress of Mexico. Not until our war was ended did the Papal dominion cease.Juarez enters, Maximilian

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