Stitched paper wrappers
1858 · Mexico
by H., J.
Mexico: Imprenta de A. Boix, 1858. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper detached, small tear throughout along inner margin, light soiling on a few leaves, still a good copy.. 14 pp. 12mo. A piece attacking the Liberals for their demands of freedom of conscience, which the conservatives saw as both a religious and political threat. The constitution to them meant the economic death of the nation, the confiscation of property, and a national upheaval similar to that brewing in the United States due to its Protestantism: "Si; pero eso que llamais libertad de conciencia trae consigo el protestantismo con todas sus sectas, y con el todos estos abortos infernales, el deismo, el mahometismo ... y luego el ateismo, ultimo termino de la locura humana... No, no, mil veces no; la conciencia no es libre," (p.6). OCLC shows 11 copies. Sabin 29392. (Also see 40920). Sutro 915. (Inventory #: 34254)