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Excerpt from Civil and Religious Persecution in the State of New York
I know not what provision there may be, if an in the State Constitution of New York, eit er to protect or to punish religious liberty; but if there is any - pro or com, in that ring ov erned State, and if the truth can be offers in evidence in her Field, Tweed (t 0033 ruled-mock ing tribunals of Justice, (god save the mark, - Would it not be well, let me ask, that Spiritu lets should establish a fund by subscription and make Mrs. Holmes's a test case? Let the de fence be rested solely on the ground of her right, by virtue of national American citizenship, to religious liberty, and to practice it in the broad est sense, even though it be after the un opular mode pursued by J cans of Nazareth, an] of Tarsus, and Peter the fisherman of old, that has become so hateful to the doctors of medicine and of the Christian or anti Christian churches (or of whatever mixed order) in the present day, that they with their deluded followers are com hinin to bring it to an end by the infliction of fine, mprisonment, and, if possible, death, as did their prototypes, the Doctors of the Temple and Sanhedrim at Jerusalem, nineteen centuries ago. Let Mrs. Holmes's defence be wholly and en tirely based on the ground-that the healing ofm m rate m york. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
