The Life and Times of Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla

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A. C. McClurg & Company, 1910 - 200 páginas

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Página 127 - ... battle was fought at Puente de Calderon (Jan. 16, 1811), and the army of independence dispersed. Hidalgo, Allende, Aldama, and Jimenez held together and started northward, intending to secure assistance and purchase arms in the United States. They were captured and later executed, and their heads taken to Guanajuato and placed upon pikes at the four corners of the Alhondiga, as "a warning to Mex*icans who chose to revolt against Spanish government.
Página 181 - 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.
Página 189 - The people have at all times the inalienable right to alter or modify the form of their government.
Página 152 - Venegas in exchange for his father, Don Leonardo Bravo, who had been sentenced to death in the capital. The offer was rejected, and Don Leonardo ordered to immediate execution. But the son at once commanded the prisoners to be liberated, — saying that he " wished to put it out of his power to avenge his parent's death, lest, in the first moments of grief the temptation should prove irresistible.
Página 170 - They shall all be united, without any distinction between Americans and Europeans. Art. 4. The government shall be a constitutional monarchy. Art. 5. A Junta shall be named, consisting of individuals who enjoy the highest reputation in different parties which have shown themselves.
Página 17 - The first expressions of co-operation were found in the co-operative and communistic colonies which settled on the land in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century.
Página 170 - ... be to convoke, according to such rules as it shall deem expedient, a congress, for the formation of a constitution more suitable to the country. ART. 8. His Majesty Ferdinand VII. shall be invited to the throne of the empire ; and, in case of his refusal, the Infantes Don Carlos and Don Francisco de Paula. ART. 9. Should his Majesty Ferdinand VII., and his august brothers, decline the invitation, the nation is at liberty to invite to the imperial throne any member of reigning families whom it...
Página 171 - ... which they now are. Art. 20. All the public functionaries, civil, ecclesiastical, political, and military, who adhere to the cause of independence, shall be continued in their offices, without any distinction between Americans and Europeans. Art. 21. Those functionaries, of whatever degree and condition, who dissent from the cause of independence, shall be divested of their offices, and shall quit the territory without taking with them their families and effects.
Página 171 - The formation of the constitution by the congress, and the oath of the emperor to observe it, must precede his entry into the country. Art. 11. The distinction of castes is abolished, which was made by the Spanish law excluding them from the rights of citizenship. All the inhabitants are citizens and equal, and the door of advancement is open to virtue and merit.
Página 169 - ARTICLE 1. — The Mexican nation is independent of the Spanish nation, and of every other, even on its own continent. ART. 2. — Its religion shall be the Catholic, which all its inhabitants profess. ART. 3. — They shall all be united, without any distinction between Americans and Europeans. ART. 4. — The government shall be a constitutional monarchy.

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