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Efforts to Involve the United States in War with Mexico/

"Senator HEFLIN, of Alabama, discovered and uncovered plot of Roman Catholic Knights of Columbus and Roman Catholic clergy to plunge the United States into war with Mexico. He read and discussed in the Senate the war-promoting resolution of the Knights of Columbus and showed that the resolution introduced in the House of Representatives preparing the way for war was introduced by a Roman Catholic Congressman from New York, Mr. BOYLAN. He showed that the unpublished testimony in the hearings on the Boylan resolution established the fact that nobody but Roman Catholics appeared to urge the passage of the resolution, and that the reason they gave for severing diplomatic relations with Mexico was 'the persecution of Roman Catholics and efforts to destroy the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico.' He charged that it was an attempt to use the United States Army to restore the Roman Catholic Church to power in Mexico."

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